Those seeking irrefutable proof of the power of an image should look no further than the yearslong, highly publicized dispute over a selection of 1850 daguerreotypes of enslaved Southerners.

The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and ...

A picture is worth 1,000 words, and in the case of two enslaved African Americans, their portraits set off a historic chain ...

The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that ...

Harvard will release the 175-year-old photographs to a South Carolina museum as part of a settlement with one of the subjects ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...

There's an ongoing attempt to erase knowledge of these atrocities and pretend as if they were just figments of Black folks’ ...

The daguerreotypes depict Renty and his daughter Delia, whom Lanier claims are her ancestors. The images will be transferred to the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina.