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Advice Revolution appoints head of sales

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Johns Hopkins University thought their founder and namesake was an abolitionist, turns out he owned enslaved people, schools says

Updated 5:41 PM ET, Wed December 9, 2020 Census data from 1840 and 1850 show Johns Hopkins owned enslaved people. He founded Johns Hopkins University in 1876. (CNN)The founder and namesake for one of the top medical schools in the nation owned enslaved people in the mid-1800s, Johns Hopkins University leadership announced Wednesday in a letter. Census records indicate Johns Hopkins owned one enslaved person in 1840 and four in 1850, according to the school. The information came to light via the Hopkins Retrospective, a university effort to deeply explore the institution s history. Hopkins founded JHU in 1876 and opened the hospital in 1889. The fact that Mr. Hopkins had, at any time in his life, a direct connection to slavery . is a difficult revelation for us, as we know it will be for our community, at home and abroad, and most especially our Black faculty, students, staff, and alumni, the JHU letter read.

Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says

Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says Thursday, December 10, 2020 The founder of Johns Hopkins University was discovered to be a slaveowner in contradiction to the long-held narrative that the philanthropist was an abolitionist. Rob Carr / Getty Images Historians for Johns Hopkins University discovered that the founder of the Baltimore-based school owned slaves, contrary to the long-held belief that the wealthy philanthropist was a staunch abolitionist. Researchers Martha S. Jones and Allison Seyler made the discovery after delving into previously undiscovered government census records as part of a university-led project on the school s history. The findings complicate the understanding the Johns Hopkins community has toward its founder, wrote University President Ronald J. Daniels and other school officials in an open letter Wednesday.

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