Tailoring Freedom, for the first time, brings together Sasha Huber’s stapling method and photography. In Joseph T. Zealy's (1812–1893) original daguerreotypes of Renty and his daughter, Delia, the two are unclothed, dehumanized, and stripped of dignity. Louis Agassiz’s son, Alexander, donated these so-called “Slave Daguerreotypes” to the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnography at Harvard University, where Agassiz was a professor and Founding Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. To reclaim their freedom, which was never granted to them during their lifetimes, Tamara Lanier, Renty’s great-great-great granddaughter, filed a lawsuit against Harvard University in 2019 for the repatriation of the daguerreotypes of her ancestors held in its collection.

On May 28, 2025 Harvard University agreed to relinquish the entire 175-year-old set of daguerreotype to the IAAM – International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. There their stories will be told with care, and in collaboration with Tamara Lanier. This happy ending to the six-year legal battle is a historic landmark victory.

Using art to heal colonial traumas, Huber reproduced and printed the photographs on wood, dressed Renty in a suit inspired by one worn by Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), and Delia in a dress inspired by one worn by Harriet Tubman (1849–1913). Here Huber has used her stapling method to symbolically heal wounds, while honouring the contributions of Douglass and Tubman (both abolitionists). By 2023, Huber had also created Tailoring Freedom portraits of the remaining five enslaved individuals—Jack, Drana, Jem, Alfred, and Fassena—who were all photographed at the same time on a plantation working camp in South Carolina.

Tailoring Freedom joined the world tour of the solo exhibition YOU NAME IT at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto on February 4–May 1, 2022. The tour began at Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam on April 9–September 21, 2021 and, after Toronto, went on to Autograph in London in November 2022, Turku Art Museum in Finland in 2023, and Ferme-Asile in Switzerland in 2024. Huber's first mongraph under the same title was published by Mousse Publishing.