Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.

Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be photographed in 1850 for a racist study by a professor trying to prove the inferiority of Black people to resolve a lawsuit by one of their descendants.

A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with the photos going to a Black history museum in South Carolina.

Francesca Gino, a business professor whose research focused on why people lie and cheat, co-authored papers that included manipulated data.

Following the revocation of a key certification allowing Harvard to enroll international students, Donald Trump suggested there should be a 15% cap on foreign students at the institution.

"I think they should have a cap of maybe around 15%, not 31%," Mr. Trump said. "We have people who want to go to Harvard and other schools; they can't get in because we have foreign students there." According to Harvard's website,

President Trump said Harvard should cap the amount of foreign students it admits at 15%, and ensure that those it does accept “are people that can love our country.”