Alexander Hamilton is born on the British island of ... Hamilton proposes an idea initiated by fellow aide John Laurens of recruiting slaves for the Continental Army and offering them freedom ...

The second issue did not spring from the Constitution itself, but rather from Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton's interpretation ... "that we Southern people must be slaves in effect, or ...

He furiously accuses Thomas Jefferson of using slave labour to pay off the South ... Thomas Jefferson (seated left), Alexander Hamilton (standing) and George Washington (seated right).

Shortly after Alexander Hamilton arrived in New York ... not once but twice. Mulligan had a slave, Cato, who was what was called a “Black Patriot” (African-Americans, who sided with the ...