This copy photo shows a 1850 Daguerreotype of Renty, a South Carolina slave who Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., said is her family’s patriarch. PHOTO ...

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

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.

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

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.

Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal ...

The Harvard biologist commissioned the portraits in 1850. They capture an older Black man named Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia Taylor. The University held on to the images, which have been at ...

Renty and Delia were photographed in 1850, making their pictures the oldest believed of any enslaved American in history. Now, their stories are being told the right way. Harvard University ...

The 1850 images of a father and daughter known as Renty and Delia, who were photographed naked to the waist, were commissioned by Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz to support the theory of ...

The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls “Papa Renty," and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum ...