A woman who says she's related to two 19th-century slaves has filed a lawsuit against Harvard University claiming it has been exploiting and profiting off images of her ancestors.
"Slavery was abolished 156 years ago, but Renty and Delia remain enslaved in Cambridge, Massachusetts," the lawsuit states
Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Connecticut, said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Massachusetts state court that she wants Harvard to acknowledge her lineage and give to her family images of the man and woman she says are her great-great-great grandfather Renty and his daughter, Delia. A 1850 Daguerreotype of Renty, a South Carolina slave who Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Connecticut, said is her family's patriarch.Harvard told NBC News that it has not been served with a lawsuit and could not comment on the allegations.
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