{"id":8096,"date":"2019-03-21T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/who-should-own-photos-of-slaves\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:33:38","slug":"who-should-own-photos-of-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/who-should-own-photos-of-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Who should own photos of slaves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does Harvard University own the rights to daguerreotypes of slaves that were taken long ago as part of the university&#8217;s work? Or do they belong to the people who claim they are descendants of the slaves? A story in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/20\/us\/slave-photographs-harvard.html\"> <strong><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/strong><\/a> examines a lawsuit Harvard is facing to determine just that and quotes Furman English Professor Gregg Hecimovich, who says verifying the chain of ancestry may prove to be a difficult task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Harvard University own the rights to daguerreotypes of slaves that were taken long ago as part of the university&#8217;s work? Or do they belong to the people who claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":8097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}