My hamilton hot take that isn’t really a hot take is that I feel like recently people have definitely exaggerated the problems with hamilton in terms of historical accuracy in ways that are pretty unfair to it. Especially when it comes to slavery because all of Hamilton’s stances on slavery are for the most part fairly accurate in the musical from what I understand. There are definitely things you can criticize about how it sorta dodges around the issue but a lot of founding fathers, Hamilton included, saw slavery as a necessary evil to win the war and thought it would naturally be phased out after the war. Obviously that was a huge mistake (which is a way bigger discussion) but it is true that he likely was morally opposed to it and wanted its end. Again I don’t blame people for making these criticisms and they’re fair but I don’t necessarily 100% agree with them
tldr the portrayal of hamiltons beliefs on slavery in hamilton was alright actually
okay to lighten the mood now I showed my sister
this video and the entire time before the show started she was quoting it and then we cheered during that scene in the musical