Lin-Manuel Miranda has acknowledged he failed to fully address the U.S. Founding Fathers’ ownership of slaves in his hit musical Hamilton.Although the smash-hit Broadway show, which debuted as a film on Disney+ on Friday (July 3, 2020), shows its main protagonist Alexander Hamilton opposing slavery, it has faced criticism from some scholars for sanitizing America’s early leaders’ ownership of slaves.In the play, only Thomas Jefferson is explicitly criticized for owning slaves, while others, such as America’s first president George Washington, who also did, are largely shown as heroic figures.African-American writer Tracy Clayton addressed the issue in a lengthy Twitter thread, writing that she agreed with the “frustration” that “a play.
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