Bruce Vail
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- Joined
- Jul 8, 2015
This was a startling news item for those of us who live in Baltimore, who have been told for decades that Hopkins was a dedicated abolitionist:
Read through and you will see the evidence is fairly thin at this point.
So far, there are no loud calls for renaming the University.
Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says
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.
www.npr.org
Read through and you will see the evidence is fairly thin at this point.
So far, there are no loud calls for renaming the University.