Harvard exploited enslaved subjects through agent Agassiz for white supremacist purposes

Evidence

Lanier’s ancestors did not labor on Harvard’s campus or suffer from enslavement directly by Harvard staff, but it is without question—as detailed in the Harvard report, and described by the court, that Harvard, through its agent Agassiz, exploited Renty’s and Delia’s (and others’) enslaved condition to extract from them value then used in furtherance of a white supremacist agenda. Thus, the spirit of the report would appear to encompass dialogue and relationship building with the descendants of those pictured in the Zealy daguerreotypes, as well as pursuit of a visible and lasting remedy to the harm worked by Agassiz and Harvard against them. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1316

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the causal bridge the court accepted: Agassiz acting as Harvard’s agent in exploiting Renty and Delia.
• ADDENDUM: Directly analogous to the Graffing & Growth and Sacrifice pieces in how institutions extract value from the subjugated and then hold what they took.