Johns Hopkins and Slavery
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In sorting out the relationship of the Hopkins family to slavery, the focus is on the immediate family of Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) including his grandparents, his aunts and uncles, his parents, and his siblings.
Johns Hopkins (grandfather) was the first in the immediate family to be confronted with the anti-slavery discipline of the Friends. In 1776 he was visited by a Friend from Pennsylvania who was canvasing any of the Friends in Maryland who owned slaves to see about their willingness to manumit their slaves.
In 1780 Johns Hopkins (grandfather) was chastised by the Indian Spring Meeting to which he belonged for manumitting for term rather than immediately.