Essays
This blog-based website is a work in progress! It will mostly feature biographical sketches of the key people who inhabited the world of Johns Hopkins and his family. As I learn new information, I will update the sketches. You can also visit my documents page and my separate Johns Hopkins History Project OSF Site to see some of the original materials I am consulting. The sources page lists some of the best books and articles I have read so far.
Post #1 Johns Hopkins (1795-1873): Portrait of the Philanthropist as a Young Man, 1795-1812
Post #2 Johns Hopkins the Elder (1720-1884): Part I, The Manumissions of 1778
Post #3 Johns Hopkins the Elder (1720-1884): Part II, The Enslaved
Post #4 Samuel Hopkins (1759-1814): Did Samuel Hopkins Own Slaves in 1807?
Post #5 Isaac Queen (1801-?) : Johns' Playmate at White Hall
Post #6 Phillis Johnson (1780-?): The Free Black Mother of Jeremiah and Thomas
Post #7 Minty Wells (1889-?): White Hall's "Well-Beloved Mammy" (under revision)
Post #8 Joseph J. Hopkins (1793-1845): The Heir to White Hall
Post #9 Helen Hopkins Thom (1869-1948): Family Historian or Mythmaker?
Post #10 Did Johns Hopkins Own Slaves? (see https://osf.io/gu2wr/)
Post #11 Clifton: Johns Hopkins' Summer Estate
Post #12 Brief Bios of Key Family Members
Post #13 Hannah Hopkins (1774-1846): "Thy Attached Mother"
Post #14 James Jones (c1820-1898): Part I, From Slave to Servant
Post #15 James Jones (c1820-1898): Part II, From Servant to Freeholder
Post #17 Chloe Dodson (1820 - ?): Finding Chloe
Post #18 The Census of 1850 at Clifton
Post #20 Minta Winters (1770-?)
Post #21 Samuel Hopkins, Jr. (1803-1867)
Post #22 Was Johns Hopkins an Abolitionist? Part I: Miner's School for Colored Girls
Post #23 Was Johns Hopkins an Abolitionist? Part II: The Maryland State Colonization Society
Post #23a Was Johns Hopkins an Abolitionist? Part II Appendix: The Letters of Thomas Gross
Post #24 Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, and the Cholera Epidemic of 1832
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” - L.P. Hartley