Question

How does Alexander Hamilton's letter to John Jay (March 14, 1779) both confirm and

Answer 1

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Alexander Hamilton's letter to John Jay (March 14, 1779) both confirm and complicate our understanding of Alexander Hamilton as he is portrayed in the musical in that in the letter we can read that Alexander Hamilton was against slavery. Hamilton was a severe critic of slavery in the United States and favored abolitionism. In that letter that Hamilton wrote to his close New Yorker friend John Jay, he supported the recruiting of black slaves to enroll in the Continental Army, an idea proposed by a South Carolina's colonists, Colonel John Laurens.