Johns Hopkins University namesake
founder revealed to have owned slaves
Independent (UK),
by
Oliver O'Connell
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/9/2020 6:49:31 PM
John Hopkins, the founder of the university and hospital that bear his name, owned slaves before the Civil War, school officials have disclosed. Researchers discovered evidence that he held four enslaved people in his home in the mid-1800s, contradicting both accounts that Mr Hopkins was an early abolitionist, and the mythology surrounding the school’s founder. It was previously understood that his father, a committed Quaker, had freed the family’s enslaved people in 1807. However, according to government census records, Mr Hopkins was the owner of one enslaved person in his house in 1840, and four were listed in 1850. It was legal
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 12/9/2020 6:52:46 PM (No. 627411)
P.C. madness. It's all censorship.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 12/9/2020 6:57:55 PM (No. 627414)
OMG! Shut it down! Take back all those diplomas. Right the wrong!!!
Bull hockey.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
AGGW 12/9/2020 7:04:01 PM (No. 627417)
So did some of Kamala's ancestors according to her father
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/9/2020 7:10:13 PM (No. 627420)
Owning slaves was like having a drivers license for the ruling classes of the day. It was not considered unusual or morally repugnant. These were not "bad" people by their contemporary standards. Have today's woke people considered what society a 165 years from now will look upon them as?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
subal 12/9/2020 7:15:20 PM (No. 627423)
This is catastrophic!
Close and level all the buildings and disown all diplomas issued!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/9/2020 7:17:49 PM (No. 627425)
Everyone owned slaves, including many freed slaves! You can't change history by "cancelling" it, you should instead keep it pure and learn from it!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mushroom 12/9/2020 7:20:09 PM (No. 627427)
#4 Says it well. It WAS the standard of the day for the elite. My input may be it is once again a goal they seek again, but there will have to be a few steps prior. Like serfdom. Note we already have a two if not three tier legal system. I'm not smart enough to fix it, but I can see it right before my eyes.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HerbVA 12/9/2020 7:23:04 PM (No. 627430)
The idiot that wrote the headline should learn the difference between eponym and namesake.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 12/9/2020 7:26:34 PM (No. 627434)
Free health care. free education, place to live, job for everyone, equal outcome and equal income for all at discretion of the elite class, all in the Democratic party plan and all part of slavery. Some things never change.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 12/9/2020 7:30:48 PM (No. 627438)
Better cancel all diplomas issued to date. And refund all the tuition fees.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lake Dweller 12/9/2020 8:00:59 PM (No. 627450)
So what?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 12/9/2020 8:01:47 PM (No. 627451)
This is Michael Bloomberg’s Alma mater, to which he has donated millions upon millions of dollars. Will he demand a refund upon hearing this terrible news of the founder of his beloved school or demand that the school be renamed Bloomberg U. and all other institutions bearing the name Hopkins renamed Bloomberg as well? I would hope so.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
pensom2 12/9/2020 8:06:14 PM (No. 627456)
Embrace the diversity!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
swarfer 12/9/2020 8:08:14 PM (No. 627458)
We have to come to grips with the fact African societies were slave holding societies who sold slaves to New World slavers. Who will hold them accountable?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 12/9/2020 8:11:05 PM (No. 627461)
Not surprising since the Baltimore area was a confederate stronghold. So much so, the Union army situated batteries of cannons pointed toward the city from what is called Federal Hill during the Civil War. Also, Union troops had to disembark from trains in Baltimore then march several blocks to catch another train to head south. Those troops came under attack from the citizens of Baltimore which resulted in what is called the President Street riots. Union troops in order protect themselves opened fire on citizens killing several citizens.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Bazi 12/9/2020 8:50:19 PM (No. 627473)
I can top that. The Baltimore Johns Hopkins campus is on property that was once a plantation where the family owned enslaved people. We toured the historic Homewood house/museum a couple of nears ago. So interesting.
The owner of the plantation- Charles Caroll- a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mauigirl 12/9/2020 9:47:35 PM (No. 627507)
My ancestors owned slaves.
They paid a fair price.
Like many smart LDotters, I wish I had a few slaves today.
Now we call them grandchildren.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
rytwng 12/9/2020 10:19:24 PM (No. 627527)
We are all slaves to the government.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
radrelic 12/9/2020 10:26:29 PM (No. 627531)
Guess what. I wouldn't have a slave in my house where intimate contact is inevitable.
After swallowing that statement I might add due to my nature I would be cooking and cleaning for them no matter the color hue. Sawing to cloth them lol?
My far back cousin William Byrd lived in his Virginia plantation, sometimes with only slaves as our ancestors families were sent back and forth across the Atlantic according to which king/parliament or usurper like Cromwell was power of state. William's letters talked of daily lashings of his slaves. Having aristocratic ancestors nothing to brag about IMO. Being descended from King Richard who killed his nephews would be worse. But nothing back more than 4 generations counts for our DNA so washed out?
Get over the onus of once slaves or live slavishly to self immolating thinking IMO. Be a free American and live free? Can we?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
columba 12/9/2020 11:08:46 PM (No. 627557)
I read about soe slaves yesterday.l It was in an historical book written in the first century AD. Muslims own slaves even in AD 2020 . And the United States has actually banned slavery.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/10/2020 12:48:30 AM (No. 627589)
Who cares? It happened in the 1800's. Are people now responsible for the sins of their father? Where is this going to lead? Total subjugation?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/10/2020 7:15:55 AM (No. 627688)
He must have been one wealthy dude.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/10/2020 7:30:17 AM (No. 627697)
So, when are they going after ultra-leftwing Yale University? Eli Yale not only owned slaves, he was a slave trader. And then there is Vanderbilt University, named for Cornelius Vanderbilt who owned multiple plantations. And he’s an ancestor of Anderson Cooper. Shouldn’t Cooper be fired from CNN?
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How are they going to keep all of these renamed Obama Universities straight? Obama No. 186?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/10/2020 8:29:37 AM (No. 627755)
My wife’s family owned slaves.....now I are one.
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