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.
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.
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