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A Vision of Equality
In Hamilton's time, much of the labor of America, in the North as well as the South, was done by slaves. Hamilton wanted to end this pernicious and degrading institution. Slavery, he wrote as early as 1774, "relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape." In 1785 he helped found the New York Manumission Society. |