Johns Hopkins founder owned slaves in the 1800s, recent research reveals Share Updated: 6:51 PM PST Dec 9, 2020 Barry Simms Share Updated: 6:51 PM PST Dec 9, 2020
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Show Transcript RETROSPECTIVE. A DEEP DIVE INTO HISTORY WITH RESEARCHERS CLAIMING THEY WILL FOLLOW THE TRUTH WHERE EVER IT LEADS. RECENTLY, THEY FOUND A DOCUMENT, STRONG EVIDENCE JOHNS HOPKINS, THE FOUNDING DONOR OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AND JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, OWNED SLAVES AT HIS BALTIMORE HOME IN 1840 AND 1850, AND HIS FAMILY HAD AN EXTENSIVE RELATIONSHIP TO SLAVE HOLDING. THE HOPKINS COMMUNITY ANNOUNCED THE FINDINGS IN A VIDEO POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA. WE HAVE A VISION AT THIS UNIVERSITY OF JOHNS HOPKINS VERY MUCH FRAMED BY A MAN IN MANY WAYS APPEARED AHEAD TO BE AHEAD OF HIS TIMES. WE’VE NOW HAD TO COME TO TERMS WITH AT LEAST IN A VERY FUNDAMENTAL PART OF HIS LIFE HE WAS OF HIS TIMES AND THAT’S HARD. BARRY: OFFICIALS POINT OUT THE UNIVERSITY A
Johns Hopkins who founded famed Baltimore college was slave-owner despite school celebrating him as abolitionist
Updated: 10 Dec 2020, 7:02
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THE namesake founder of Johns Hopkins University was a slave owner - not the celebrated abolitionist many believed him to be until the school made the difficult revelation on Wednesday.
The university released a statement acknowledging they came across census records that showed that its founder owned at least five slaves between 1840 and 1850.
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Johns Hopkins University announced on Wednesday that this census record shows he owned five slaves between 1840 and 1850Credit: National Archives and Record Administration For most of the last century, our institutions believed Johns Hopkins to be an early and staunch abolitionist whose father, a committed Quaker, had freed the family’s enslaved people in 1807, the university said.
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Researchers found census records showing the entrepreneur and philanthropist owned slaves as late as 1850, contrary to the long-held belief that his family freed all slaves when he was a boy.
Johns Hopkins owned slaves: Records shatter belief university founder was staunch abolitionist
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A couple throw a frisbee for a dog on the campus of The Johns Hopkins University on March 28, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland.Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images/TNS
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By Jonathan M. Pitts, The Baltimore Sun (TNS)
BALTIMORE The narrative has stood as an unquestioned landmark of Baltimore history for at least nine decades: Johns Hopkins, the businessman who founded the university and hospital that bear his name, was more than just a big-time philanthropist. He was an abolitionist, a civic leader who actively opposed slavery and racism in all its forms.