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In 1850 Harvard professor and biologist Louis Agassiz commissioned a study in scientific racism. The resulting images of a group of people of African descent are now known as the Zealy daguerreotypes and have become critical artifacts in the study of enslavement and racism in American history.

In the 18th century, the Royall House was home to the largest slaveholding family in Massachusetts. It was a bequest from Isaac Royall Jr. that funded the establishment of Harvard Law School in 1817. In 2016, the Harvard Corporation approved the removal of the Law School's shield, which was derived directly from the Royall coat of arms. Courtesy of Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University

Amid a national reckoning on race, Harvard's Radcliffe-based program is pressing forward with efforts to examine its historic ties to slavery and their lasting effects.

University of Connecticut Professor Manisha Sinha spoke about African American intellectuals James W.C. Pennington, Frederick Douglass, and William Wells Brown who, she says, often offered ethical and moral arguments against scientific racism. Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer

Radcliffe webinar exploring the legacy of slavery upends myths of Northern blamelessness.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is faculty director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. Photo by Martha Stewart

Radcliffe Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad leads Harvard Kennedy School research initiative to look at why diversity and inclusion efforts succeed or fail.