The theme of slavery
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow addresses slavery in the eighteenth century. Slaves were people of the black race who were stolen from West Africa particularly the Gold Coast and forced to work in the sugar plantations of the West Indies. The captured slaves were bought and sold as property in the open markets in the West Indies. They were brandished with hot irons to show who they belonged to. The narrator develops this theme by showing how the slaves suffered at the hands of their white masters. They were badly beaten for any small wrongdoing and killed should they strike a white person. They had no rights in America for they were considered property. Alexander Hamilton observed slavery in that time and the gruesome and horrific way that slaves were treated might have shaped his view on the liberation and equality of all people in America.
Theme of great nation building
Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of America therefore his biography contains many elements of nation building. The book starts off when America was a British colony where was no form of self governance. In time Alexander Hamilton and his allies chartered a future for America as a self governing country that had its own currency and banking system. America obtained her independence after a great war and then grew upwards from there as a result of the leadership of its presidents such as Alexander Hamilton. Alexander and his college friends convinced the public of the need for independence and self governance. They together fought for the independence of the country and attained it. They then collaborated in forming the country and writing its constitution.
