Johns Hopkins University revises language about founder's ties to slavery – Baltimore Sun

Rather than Johns Hopkins University's previous assertion that its founder “held enslaved people,” the Baltimore school's website now says “new research has uncovered census records that indicate enslaved people were among the individuals living and laboring in Johns Hopkins’ home in 1840 and 1850, with the latter document denoting Johns Hopkins as the slaveholder.”

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