According to us media reports recently, the new crown epidemic in the United States in 2020 made Johns Hopkins University famous all over the world, because Trump was extremely "lazy" in leading the fight against the epidemic, and the number of infections and deaths in the United States 24 hours a day was counted and released by Johns Hopkins University, and the university also played a leading role in researching the new crown vaccine. Johns Hopkins University is one of the leading institutions in the United States, and the School of Medicine is ranked at the top of the list.
So who is Johns Hopkins? He was actually the founder of the university, who was born in 1795 into a large slave-owning family and owned a 500-acre tobacco plantation. Hopkins' parents were members of the "Quakers," who advocated equality and the need for all humanity to be like brothers, so in 1807, more than half a century before the Civil War, Hopkins' parents had freed all slaves. This meant that all the life of the former "little young master" needed to be done by himself, and Hopkins and his brother had to work in their own tobacco fields.
Childhood experiences also led Hopkins to become an abolitionist. By the time of the Civil War, Hopkins had become Baltimore's premier billionaire. After the outbreak of the war, he did not hesitate to lose a lot, and invested in the railway for the use of the Northern Army, strongly supporting Lincoln's abolitionist policy. Hopkins donated more than $7 million in his estate in his will, a fortune equivalent to $3 billion today that was later used to found Hopkins University, orphanages and hospitals. Johns Hopkins has also been proud of its founder's history and has also struggled to combat racism in recent years.
However, Johns Hopkins' "criminal history" has also recently been exposed. According to census records from 1840 to 1850 found this year, he had 1 slave in 1840, and 4 slaves in 1850 ten years later. This means that Johns Hopkins was actually a hypocrite who vigorously advocated abolition while driving slaves, albeit in small numbers. Ron Daniels, current President of Hopkins University, said: "We are shocked by the disclosure of this part of Mr. Hopkins' life. "
This "astonishing discovery" also casts a shadow over the university's proud history. Posts appeared on the Internet asking the school to change its name. But Johns Hopkins isn't the only American university to have been found to have a "black history." Similar controversies have arisen at Duke University, Washington and Lee University, North Carolina Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia and other prestigious universities. Some schools renamed dormitories named after white supremacists, some removed discriminatory sculptures, and some even demolished buildings donated by slave owners. It seems unrealistic to change all the names, after all, even the "Father of the Nation" President Washington is a slave owner, is the US capital to be renamed? Text/PY