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Johns Hopkins who founded famed Baltimore college was SLAVE-OWNER despite school celebrating him as abolitionist

Johns Hopkins who founded famed Baltimore college was slave-owner despite school celebrating him as abolitionist Updated: 10 Dec 2020, 7:02 Invalid Date, 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. 10 10 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.

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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