Johns Hopkins was a slave owner, university reveals

University, which has been at forefront of Covid-19 response, took pride in founder purportedly being an abolitionist

Johns Hopkins University, whose researchers have been at the forefront of the global response to Covid-19, announced on Wednesday that its founder owned slaves during the 19th century, a revelation for the Baltimore-based school that had taken pride in the man purportedly being a staunch abolitionist.