Academic outsiders recognized descendant consent for slave images where Harvard itself did not

Evidence

Meredith’s point—to use the images without consent and/or approval from the family—was a violation of the Belmont Report and it continued to strip Renty and Delia of their humanity. She was among a growing number of writers and academics who had reached out to me to ask my permission to use the images and discuss my case. It made me wonder, why did Meredith and those other academics see the value in reaching out to me, whereas Harvard did not? — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1020

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ongoing theme of property law as the afterlife of slavery — the asymmetry between institutional and individual acknowledgment is the crux of the whole reparations-as-property argument.