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A Reckoning With Johns Hopkins' History Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine
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Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North 1780-1861
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Johns Hopkins University thought their founder and namesake was an abolitionist, turns out he owned enslaved people, schools says
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In 2020, JHU Acknowledged Enslaved People Were Held at Clifton Mansion. The Reckoning Continues.
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Who was Johns Hopkins? Thought to oppose slavery, he enslaved people
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History & Mission Johns Hopkins University
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John Brown's “tragic prelude” to the U.S. Civil War
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Newly discovered documents prompt reexamination of the history of university's founder, Johns Hopkins
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Johns Hopkins who founded famed Baltimore college was slave-owner despite school celebrating him as abolitionist
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New England - The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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The man who hanged John Brown