Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says
Thursday, December 10, 2020
The founder of Johns Hopkins University was discovered to be a slaveowner in contradiction to the long-held narrative that the philanthropist was an abolitionist.
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Historians for Johns Hopkins University discovered that the founder of the Baltimore-based school owned slaves, contrary to the long-held belief that the wealthy philanthropist was a staunch abolitionist.
Researchers Martha S. Jones and Allison Seyler made the discovery after delving into previously undiscovered government census records as part of a university-led project on the school s history.
The findings complicate the understanding the Johns Hopkins community has toward its founder, wrote University President Ronald J. Daniels and other school officials in an open letter Wednesday.
Johns Hopkins, long believed by university to be abolitionist, owned slaves, records show
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Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says
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Historians for Johns Hopkins University discovered that the founder of the Baltimore-based school owned slaves, contrary to the long-held belief that the wealthy philanthropist was a staunch abolitionist.
Researchers Martha S. Jones and Allison Seyler made the discovery after delving into previously undiscovered government census records as part of a university-led project on the school s history.
The findings complicate the understanding the Johns Hopkins community has toward its founder, wrote University President Ronald J. Daniels and other school officials in an open letter Wednesday. It calls to mind not only the darkest chapters in the history of our country and our city but also the complex history of our institutions since then, and the legacies of racism and inequity we are working together to confront, the officials wrote.
Johns Hopkins University Reveals Founder, Once Thought to Be an Abolitionist, Enslaved People People 12/10/2020 © Provided by People JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado/Getty Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins, the man who founded the country’s first research university and was long thought to be a “staunch abolitionist,” actually enslaved people a finding that complicates his legacy as a supporter of Baltimore’s Black community, the school has revealed.
Johns Hopkins University announced the findings in an open letter on Wednesday, and said they came from researchers Martha S. Jones and Allison Seyler as part of a years-long project.
“Like so many others who have made meaningful contributions to our country’s history, Mr. Hopkins is a complex and contradictory person whose story holds within it multiple truths both his participation in slaveholding and his extraordinary and specific gifts to the people of Baltimore, particularly those gifts that supported Bla
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