alexander hamilton slavery...

“Hamilton, using the pen name “Civis” in a newspaper piece of February 23, 1791, penned the following to Madison and Jefferson:

“As to the Negroes, you must be tender upon that subject. . . . Who talk most about liberty and equality . . . ? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?”

Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow, Biography, 2005