Harvard’s support of Agassiz made it complicit in racial subhuman propaganda.

Evidence

Mike was most excited about telling the history of slavery in a way that proved its relevance today: how it did not end but it evolved to sharecropping, then convict leasing, debt peonage laws, vagrancy laws, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and racial profiling today. He wanted to shine a light on the fact that Harvard was responsible for the propaganda that enslaved people were subhuman. Harvard’s leadership supported Agassiz when he commissioned the images-so they were complicit. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 800

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that Harvard leadership was ‘complicit’ because it supported Agassiz’s commissioning is the crux of the institutional liability argument — worth tracing precisely.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 800