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Johns Hopkins University Reveals Founder, Once Thought to Be an Abolitionist, Enslaved People

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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