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A life entwined with slavery By Hamilton’s time in pre-revolutionary America, wealthy Northerners like him not only benefited from and propagated slavery, but enjoyed centuries of generational wealth built on the labor and lives of enslaved people. Hamilton’s father-in-law had among the largest slaveholdings in the North. His mother-in-law was the daughter of Johannes Van Rensselaer and Angelica Livingston, both members of two of the largest slaveholding families in the North. Hamilton’s early years in the Caribbean were also marked by slavery. He was born on the British West Indies island of Nevis in the 1750s into a household that held slaves. By age 11, he was working as a clerk for Beekman & Cruger, a firm based in New York that traded enslaved people and other commodities – like food products and wood for shipbuilding – that fed the slave economies.

New yorkUnited statesNorth carolinaUnited kingdomRhode islandGeorgetown universityDistrict of columbiaMichael robinson chavezWilliam shermanBeekman crugerWilliam hamiltonWilliam bayard jrJohannes van rensselaerAngelica livingstonJames armistead lafayetteAlexander hamilton