Founder of Johns Hopkins University owned slaves, says varsity
Johns Hopkins, the founder of the university and hospital that bear his name, was a slaveholder during the mid-1800s, Ronald Daniels, president of the Maryland-based university, said. According to census records, Hopkins owned multiple slaves between 1840s and 1850s. This is in contrast with the longstanding narrative that Hopkins was an early abolitionist, the university tweeted on Thursday.