A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

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 ...

Seeing as he owned hundreds of slaves that he never actually freed ... Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison are considered ...

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).

He died in a tragic duel with his political rival, Aaron Burr. Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1757, in Nevis, British West Indies. His father, James Hamilton, was a Scottish trader.