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éticaeselmayordesafíMoore called the images captured by her ancestor, Agassiz, a “deeply racist project.”éticaeselmayordesafí“This victory reminds us that the meaning of such objects in museums can and should change,” she said. “This woman standing next to me, she knew all along she was not small and she was not alone.”

éticaeselmayordesafíIn 2019, Lanier sued Harvard, alleging the images were taken “without Renty’s and Delia’s consent and therefore unlawfully retained.” The suit attacked Harvard for its “exploitation” of Renty’s image at a 2017 conference and in other uses. It said Harvard has capitalized on the photos by demanding a “hefty” licensing fee to reproduce the images.éticaeselmayordesafíAgassiz came across Renty and Delia while touring plantations in search of racially “pure” enslaved individuals born in Africa, according to Lanier’s suit. To create the images, both Renty and Delia were posed shirtless and photographed from several angles.éticaeselmayordesafí“To Agassiz, Renty and Delia were nothing more than research specimens,” the suit said. “The violence of compelling them to participate in a degrading exercise designed to prove their own subhuman status would not have occurred to him, let alone mattered.”

éticaeselmayordesafíIn 2021, a Massachusetts courtéticaeselmayordesafíthat photos are the property of the photographer, not the subject — a stance affirmed by the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

éticaeselmayordesafíHowever, while Harvard sought to have the case dismissed, the state high court allowed the case to proceed on Lanier’s claim to emotional distress damages.

éticaeselmayordesafíThe state’s highest court recognized “Harvard’s complicity in the horrific actions surrounding the creation of the daguerreotypes,” saying that “Harvard’s present obligations cannot be divorced from its past abuses.”éticaeselmayordesafíFollow Marc Levy on X at

éticaeselmayordesafíSCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has admitted his role in the theft and sale of human body parts — including hands, feet and heads.éticaeselmayordesafíCedric Lodge, 57, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Pennsylvania to interstate transport of stolen human remains, federal prosecutors said. He could face up to 10 years in prison.

éticaeselmayordesafíThe thefts from the morgue in Boston occurred from 2018 through at least March 2020, prosecutors said. Authorities have said Lodge, his wife and others were part of aéticaeselmayordesafíof people who bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard and a mortuary in Arkansas.