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In an email sent from Johns Hopkins University to all employees on December 9, 2020, the university wrote that, "The current research done by Martha S. Jones and Allison Seyler finds no evidence to substantiate the description of Johns Hopkins as an abolitionist, and they have explored and brought to light a number of other relevant materials ...
Prior to the discovery, the university had held its founder was a "strong abolitionist," based on the representation of Hopkins in a 1929 publication written by his grandniece and published by the school's press. [68] The main claim being that Johns Hopkins' parents freed all their slaves by 1807.
Johns Hopkins University [a] (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, ... Hopkins was a prominent abolitionist who supported Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
BALTIMORE — The revelation by Johns Hopkins University that its founder and namesake enslaved people in the decades before the Civil War shattered a nearly century-old myth for many students ...
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Samuel McPherson Janney (January 11, 1801 – April 30, 1880) was an American Quaker minister, educator, author, abolitionist, and cousin to philanthropist Johns Hopkins. [1] Janney was an influential advocate for the abolition of slavery and worked to improve education for African Americans and Native Americans.
A pamphlet entitled Bishop Hopkins Letter on Slavery Ripped Up and his Misuse of the Sacred Scriptures Exposed was written by an anonymous clergyman in 1863. In this pamphlet the author methodically opposes all of Hopkins’ points and either gives more evidence to show how he was wrong or gives another interpretation of the Hopkins’ evidence to prove the contrary.
Samuel Hopkins (September 17, 1721 – December 20, 1803) was an American Congregationalist theologian of the late colonial era of the United States. Hopkinsian theology was named for him. Hopkins was an early abolitionist, saying that it was in the interest and duty of the U.S. to set free all of their slaves.