Brazilian Muslims demand Harvard return skull of slave who fought in uprising
INTERNATIONAL The Islamic community of Salvador, in Brazil’s Bahia state, has pushed Harvard University to repatriate the skull of an enslaved man who allegedly took part in a famous uprising of African Muslims in the city in 1835. The skull is part of a Harvard collection of human remains of 19 people of African origin likely enslaved in the Americas. The University’s Peabody and Warren museums also hold the remains […]
