Posted on 06/23/2022 2:34:23 PM PDT by Baladas
BOSTON (AP) — A Connecticut woman who says she’s descended from slaves who are portrayed in widely published, historical photos owned by Harvard University can sue the school for emotional distress, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Thursday.
The state’s Supreme Judicial Court partly vacated a lower court ruling that dismissed a complaint from Tamara Lanier over photos she says depict her enslaved ancestors. The images are considered some of the earliest that show enslaved people in the U.S.
The court concluded the Norwich resident and her family can plausibly make a case for suffering “negligent and indeed reckless infliction of emotional distress” from Harvard and remanded that part of their claim to the state Superior Court.
The judges said the university failed to contact Lanier when it used one of the images on a book cover and prominently featured it in materials for a campus conference — even after she’d reached out about her ancestral ties.
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Tamara Lanier-—a thief who just thought up a new way to rob the taxpayers. She certainly doesn’t look as though she is suffering in any way, shape, or form. I suppose now Jews can sue for publication of Holocaust victims. Let’s see how far we can take Snowflakedom. This piece of useless trash probably gets “distress” from wiping herself in the bathroom.
Harvard’s private! She’ll be robbing the endowment and the alumni.
From Harvard's recent woke garbage, I have no sympathy on them.
Her emotional distress will end the moment Harvard ponies up the cash.
Neither do I, they the alumni reap what they have allowed to be sown!
Photos of slaves are just one of many examples considered part of the legitimate record.
There is something I have wondered about for awhile after the topic came up in a discussion. How common was slave torture or abuse?
I did a search. This one picture comes up almost exclusively. I'm not sure if I even saw any other examples of slaves having whipping scars, but I know this one particular picture is ubiquitous.
Does anyone know of any other examples of the mistreatment of slaves?
And they will wear it the lawsuits like a badge of honor
The overwhelming majority of white people in the USA are descendants of slaves. Simply follow your genealogy all the way back to Rome and somewhere in your tree you will most likely find a slave.
She doesn’t look too traumatized there.
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When I first saw this headline, I thought it was from the Bee.
“She demanded the photos from Harvard”
The subject matter and provenance of the original slave photos (ambrotypes or daguerreotypes) makes them worth thousands of dollars each, possibly as high as $15,000.00-20,000.00 apiece.
Haha. Hey Harvard, the chickens are coming home to roost.
I’d like to see a legitimate genealogical report that shows, with documentation, that she is directly descended from the guy in the picture. And further a documentation with no weasel words that the guy in the photo is really whom it is said to be.
Sho be smilin now!
I want to see a video with then proclaiming the photos were taken against their will. She needs proof otherwise she can make up any thing she wants. Smells like she’s holding out for a payout to make her go away.
Harvard has all sorts of photos and films in its archives! That includes not only slave photos, but anthropological films about tribes that were considered “primitive” at the times the films were made.
This archival material has value in terms of learning about history and the development of anthropological theory. Once again, CANCEL CULTURE threatens to deprive us of these opportunities for learning and even racial progress!!!!
Maybe BLM should give her a million dollars to buy a mansion!
How about reparations for all the photos of War Of Northern Aggression dead solders to families of same? Mathew Brady et al.
That reminds me. Mona Lisa was my great-great-great X N Grandmother. She was painted against her will. I demand they return that painting to me.
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