Johns Hopkins, the 19th century businessman and namesake of the prestigious hospital and university in Baltimore, Maryland, enslaved at least four Black people before the Civil War. The revelation, made by school officials this week, was based on newly unearthed census documents and counters the popular narrative that Hopkins was an abolitionist.
— source washingtonpost.com | Dec 10, 2020
[just said so. everybody is living in the limit of own knowledge of that time]