Harvard agrees to transfer photos of enslaved people to black history museum

Harvard University has agreed to transfer historic photos of enslaved people taken in 1850 to the International African American Museum in South Carolina after a legal battle with Tamara Lanier. The daguerreotypes feature individuals such as Alfred, Delia, and Renty, and were rediscovered in Harvard's Peabody Museum in 1976. Commissioned by Harvard professor Louis Agassiz to support the concept of white superiority, the images are seen as significant artifacts of America's history of slavery.