Alexander Hamilton

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her husband sued for everything she had so that he could deprive the whore children of anything that could help them. Through all these tribulations Hamilton realized that nothing would be handed to him and he would have to work harder than anyone else to make a name for himself.
With his new found knowledge Hamilton took on the job as a clerk for an international trading company owned by Nicholas Cruger. Since he had experience as a bookkeeper in his mother’s store he rose quickly in the store’s power chain. Under his bosses tutoring he learned quickly learned about global finance. The port of St. Croix was where Hamilton worked most of the time. In his early life he got a picture of the world from there. He saw the worst side of the world too. St. Croix had a major slave trade economy. Hamilton left there with a great hatred for slavery.
While Cruger exposed Hamilton to the financial world a priest by the name of Hugh Knox advised Hamilton on the spiritual ...

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what was going on. By the time that Hamilton had came back to New York he was convinced that the rebels had just reason to revolt against England. This was to become a recurring pattern for Hamilton. He would often have long fact finding missions before he came to a decision.
Hamilton in his new home in New York could not pick up his newspaper without finding articles about the revolution. He would find both pro and con articles. It was not long before Hamilton put his two cents into the whole matter. After reading a pamphlet written by a loyalist who criticized the continental congress Hamilton responded with a pamphlet of his own. He wrote a pamphlet called “A Full Vindication of ...

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