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Harvard Sued By Slave Descendant Over 19th Century Images Of Her Ancestor
When Tamara Lanier was a little girl, she said, her mother would often tell her stories about her great-great-great-grandfather, whom she called Papa Renty. He was from Congo, enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina, Lanier said, and her mother was especially proud he taught other enslaved people to read with a blue-backed spelling book. He woul...
'Susan Svrluga Mara Reinstein The Washington Post' - 1 News Result(s)
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Harvard Sued By Slave Descendant Over 19th Century Images Of Her Ancestor
When Tamara Lanier was a little girl, she said, her mother would often tell her stories about her great-great-great-grandfather, whom she called Papa Renty. He was from Congo, enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina, Lanier said, and her mother was especially proud he taught other enslaved people to read with a blue-backed spelling book. He woul...
