These images are among the oldest known photographs of enslaved people in America. Tamara Lanier’s fight to gain control of them shows there is no clear system in place to repatriate remains of captive Africans or objects associated with them. The images are available at: https://tinyurl.com/3vwnhc4p.
Background information about these photographs is available at: https://tinyurl.com/2s45w3bw.