From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried: Carrie Mae Weems' Challenge to the Harvard Archive.

An essay is presented on enslavement of blacks by white masters in the U.S. It reflects that the images and objects testifying the violent past of the U.S. must deserve special treatment in copyright and property law and discusses a legal battle between New York based artist Carrie Mae Weems and Harvard University in this context. It describes the history of Harvard ethnologist Louis Agassiz, the Daguerreotypes, and their relation to racist science in the U.S.