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Johns Hopkins University reckons with history, reveals founder owned multiple slaves
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foxnews.comJohns Hopkins University heralded its founder's abolitionism for nearly a century, but a reexamination of the school's history recently revealed that Johns Hopkins actually owned several slaves. "The fact that Mr.
Hopkins had, at any time in his life, a direct connection to slavery — a crime against humanity that tragically persisted in the state of Maryland until 1864 — 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," Johns Hopkins University leaders wrote in a letter to the school community Wednesday.
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