Hopkins, John Henry
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Hopkins, John Henry
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The Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, Hopkins was the most prominent Episcopal clerical defender of slavery in the antebellum period and the designer of the campus of the University of the South.
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Bishop Hopkins of Vermont was a friend to the founders of the University of the South, especially Leonidas Polk and Stephen Elliott - his intense and lengthy Biblical defenses of slavery endeared him to the entire Southern Episcopal church. He spent the decade preceding the Civil War on a campaign to insulate slavery from theological critique. Between publications of pro-slavery pamphlets, he joined with Polk and Elliott at Sewanee to sketch out an architectural vision for their new University of the South, intended to economically and socially empower the plantation class. During his winter visit, Hopkins surveyed and painted some of the landscape features that were to become part of Sewanee's 13,000-acre "domain."
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1792
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1868
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