A living descendant of Louis Agassiz publicly supported Lanier’s lawsuit against Harvard.

Evidence

In the flurry of messages I received after we filed, one came in the form of a Facebook message—from Marian Moore, Louis Agassiz’s great-great-great-granddaughter. I opened it apprehensively: “Hi Tamara. I read about your important lawsuit in the Times. I applaud you. You are ‘a direct descendent of Renty’ and I am a direct descendent of Louis Agassiz—who wants to see justice and liberation made real. I was trying to see how I might be of service to y/our cause. If you are interested in being in touch, my email address is…. At your service, warmly and in solidarity, Marian Moore.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 866

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• XREF: This tightens the ‘afterlife of slavery’ arc — the descendants of the oppressor and the enslaved converging on the same litigation is a new layer of the property-law-as-afterlife thesis.