Harvard used institutional pressure to suppress a descendant’s published account.

Evidence

My thought in that moment was, Wow. What about the freedom and autonomy of the press? By now it was clear to me that Harvard was actively trying to silence my story and Papa Renty’s legacy. Their claim to view the university’s ties with slavery through the prism of humanity was just rhetoric. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 567

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the institutional-silencing pattern in the One Square Inch of Silence material — how institutions leverage procedure and access to suppress voices they cannot legally silence outright.