[sphinx]

Knowing if it's true would help explain why Hamilton and John Jay worked on legal strategies after the Revolution to keep former slaves and freedmen from being snatched back into slavery. They called it the New York Manumission Society.

"He was a passionate and consistent abolitionist," Chernow told me. "What he says about blacks is very sympathetic."

Hamilton wrote a letter to John Jay objecting to his reasons for rejecting slaves and free blacks as soldiers.

"Their natural faculties are probably as good as ours," Hamilton wrote.

I'm convinced.

No white man could hold these views.

[William Terrell]

No white man could hold these views.

Best poetic sarcasm. Hats off.

[Ann Archy]

"probably"???? geesh.....they can have him.

[SimplePlan4EVER]

really? maybe he was just early for the time. maybe he was intelligent enough to realize that blacks and whites have the same potential if treated exactly the same. i don’t think hamilton was black...just cuz he was a strong abolitionist doesn’t have to mean he’s black! gosh you’re making all these stories, you the writer whoever you are.