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Black History Month 2020
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 40.821340, -73.947140
Hamilton Grange National Memorial
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Saturday, February 22nd
11:00 am - "Alexander Hamilton and the Haitian Constitution" by Nicole Scholet
The Haitian Revolution was the first successful black anti-slavery and anti-colonial revolution in the world by self-liberated enslaved. A little-known fact about Alexander Hamilton is that he helped draft Haiti’s constitution after the Haitian Revolution led to the country’s independence from France. This talk will explore Hamilton’s involvement in the nation-building process for Haiti, as well as the impact the Haitian Revolution had on the United States during Hamilton’s lifetime.
Nicole Scholet, President of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, is a historian, public speaker, and contributing author who specializes on the founding period of the US, with additional focus on researching previously unexplored topics on Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton’s lives and legacies.
1:00 pm - "Alexander Hamilton and the Poverty of Slavery" by Robert E. Wright
This talk explores what Alexander Hamilton's views on slavery may have become had he lived as long as Aaron Burr did. It is likely that Hamilton would have created a Hinton Helper-esque view of slavery by the 1820s, if not earlier, because of his known views on the economics of slavery and the fact that the natural experiment between North and South, free and enslaved, was sufficiently advanced by that point to reveal what Wright calls The Poverty of Slavery, the fact that enslaving others may be profitable but that it never, ever leads to economic growth and development.
Robert Eric Wright is a business, economic, financial, and monetary historian and the inaugural Rudy and Marilyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is also a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Robert E. Wright is also a recipient of the National Hamilton Scholar Award by the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society.
3:00 pm - "The Life of US Revenue Cutter Captain Michael A. Healy" by Aux. Michael Barth
This talk will explore the life and service of Captain Michael A. Healy, the only African American to have a command or commission in any of the Coast Guard’s predecessor services, commanded the cutter Bear from 1887 to 1895.
Healy retired as the third highest-ranking officer from the Revenue Cutter Service. This talk is presented by Auxiliarist Michael Barth from the US Coast Guard Auxiliary Upper Manhattan Flotilla.
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This program is presented by the Hamilton Grange National Memorial, the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, the Museum of American Finance and Revolutionary NYC
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