University reveals Johns Hopkins was a slave owner

Olivia Krueger

Researchers have revealed that they uncovered information through government census records that John Hopkins (of Johns Hopkins University) was a slave owner. This comes as a blow to the university which has prided itself on the narrative that Hopkins and his family were abolitionists and that his father set slaves free in 1807. President of the university Ronald J Daniels and other officials ... ...more

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