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Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist. Born on a plantation, he left his home to start a career at the age of 17, and settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where he remained for most of his life.
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.
The abolitionist movement was strengthened by the activities of free African Americans, especially in the Black church, who argued that the old Biblical justifications for slavery contradicted the New Testament. African-American activists and their writings were rarely heard outside the Black community.
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.
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 ...
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life. New York: Carlton & Porter. Cutter, Martha J. (2017). The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.
The new book "The Color of Abolition" chronicles the movement that pushed for an end to slavery and the abolitionists who led the campaign. Author Linda Hirshman joined CBS News' Anne-Marie Green ...
However, after 1840 many abolitionists rejected the idea of repatriation to Africa. [34] The abolitionist movement among white Protestants was based on evangelical principles of the Second Great Awakening. Evangelist Theodore Weld led abolitionist revivals that called for immediate emancipation of slaves.