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of will and intellect,
changed our country forever.
-I don't even really know
if I knew
I knew was on a --
he was on our currency.
-Alexander Hamilton is one
of the unsung heroes
of our country.
-Yeah, well, that's
the way history works.
Sometimes it takes a while
for people to give you credit.
-Hamilton saw
the opportunity
when an -- an immigrant
could come to this country,
get a little education,
have some great ideas,
work hard, and build something.
Pretty amazing guy.
-Hamilton was born
on the island of Nevis.
Nevis is a very beautiful
in the Caribbean.
But the day-to-day reality
was very brutal and violent,
like most of the Caribbean
islands at that time.
It was dominated by
sugar and cotton plantations.
-Most people in America
think of the slave trade
but most of them
went to the Caribbean.
And so Hamilton was
right in the middle
of this huge, huge market.
Even people who were not
terribly well-to-do
could have one or two
slaves in Nevis.
And his family did.
-Hamilton's mother, Rachel,
had just fled
an unhappy marriage
when she met his father,
James Hamilton.
But under the terms
of her divorce,
she wasn't able to remarry,
which meant that Hamilton
and his brother had to grow up
with the stigma of illegitimacy,
which was very real
in those days.
And so Hamilton goes
through some really rough...
between birth and getting
out of the island.
-When Hamilton was 11,
James Hamilton abandoned Rachel
and the two sons
Not long afterwards, Rachel
contracted a lethal fever,
which she then communicated
to Alexander.
- In the eye of a hurricane
There is quiet
for just a moment
A yellow sky
I was 12
when my mother died
She was holding me
We were sick,
and she was holding me
I couldn't seem to die
-Hamilton suddenly
found himself,
at the age of 13,
an illegitimate orphan
in poverty,
and so he immediately
had to go to work.
-He worked for a trading charter
as a kid,
so he's getting
firsthand economic education
because the people
who actually own it
are off on ships, trading.
And he's in charge of the books
back home.
- When I was 17,
I didn't drown
I couldn't seem to die
-A hurricane
destroys Saint Croix.
He writes a letter
about the destruction he saw,
and it's so beautifully written
that a newspaper publishes it.
-It was impressive enough
and eloquent enough
that people got together
a charitable fund
to send him to North America,
to the North American colonies,
so he could get
a real education.
-And that's how he
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