Harvard University agrees to transfer ownership of slavery photographs | Racism News

The images are some of the oldest known photographs of enslaved people in the United States.

But the daguerreotypes of an African man known as Renty and his daughter Delia have been at the centre of a years-long legal dispute over the legacy of slavery and those who profit from it.

On Wednesday, that dispute came to a close, when the institution that held the 175-year-old photographs — Harvard University — agreed to a settlement that would end its ownership of the images.

Instead, the…