Harvard profited from Renty’s image even after admitting complicity in slavery

Evidence

In 2016, Harvard’s then-president Drew Gilpin Faust said, “Harvard was directly complicit in America’s system of racial bondage from the college’s earliest days…. This is our history and our legacy.” Yet as recently as 2017, Harvard again used Renty’s likeness on the cover of a textbook [From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery, published by Harvard University Press]. Does the University want to continue to gain from an image stolen from enslaved people? — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 895

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• XREF: Direct evidence for the reader’s core thesis that Harvard institutionally holds and profits from a stolen image despite public apology.