Enslavers’ photographed subjects’ descendants hold rightful claim to the images

Evidence

“Every day that Harvard maintains those positions compounds the injustices inflicted on Renty and Delia in its name, and further harms you as their descendant and the rightful owner of images taken without their consent,” Mike said. “By denying your superior claim to the daguerreotypes, Harvard is perpetuating the systematic subversion of Black property rights that began during slavery and continued for a century thereafter.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 786

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Frames the entire suit as the continuation of a systematic subversion of Black property rights — a genuinely invertive legal theory tying photography taken without consent to slave-labor expropriation.