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Johns Hopkins Founder Owned Slaves

By Victor Omondi John Hopkins, the founding father of John Hopkins University, has had a longstanding record as being an abolitionist, an honor that has been the hallmark of his founded institutes. But that, it turns out, isn’t true, according to a research done at Maryland state Archives Last Spring. It unearthed an 1850 census record that listed four enslaved people in the house of a John Hopkins. The story on record, told several times at the institution and the Baltimore medical center bearing his name has been different. It painted John as a young boy, who, after being called from school as a young boy to work the field after his father freed the family slaves (there is no supporting evidence to this regard), grew up to become a committed abolitionist. He left behind $7 million to build the nation’s first research university along a hospital that would serve the poor regardless of their age, sex or color, and act that became the largest philanthropic legacy in American hi

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