How accurate is #HamiltonFilm https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">?

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The musical has turned the Founding Father into a hero. Since the release on Disney+, though, some are asking to remove it because it glorifies a slave owner.

So, what do the musical and #CancelHamilton get right – and wrong?
& #39;Hamilton owned slaves& #39;
Well, the point is that we don& #39;t know. His wife& #39;s family, the Schuylers, were certainly slave owners. But there is no evidence that Hamilton himself owned slaves.
& #39;Hamilton traded slaves& #39;
In his teenage years in St Croix, Hamilton worked as a clerk for a firm that occasionally traded slaves and it is likely that he himself was involved in some of these transactions
& #39;Hamilton was anti-immigration& #39;
Hamilton was associated with the passage of some of the most blatantly anti-immigrant legislation in US history.

The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 made it harder to become a citizen, and gave the state the power to imprison and deport new arrivals.
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