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For the longest time I have heard people rave about Hamilton. Not knowing anything about musical theatre I assumed it was some fad that would fade away in two months. After seeing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s writing process and the amount of heart he puts into his work, its easy to see why so many people are passionate about the show. Hamilton’s America follows LMM through various points of his life while Hamilton was under production. Hamilton’s America shows us the triumphs and hardships that Alexander Hamilton had to face in order to succeed in early America and even before then.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s portrayal of Hamilton as the ultimate immigrant experience fits within a framework that we don’t often see when we talk about the founding fathers and early revolutionary America. Hamilton was an immigrant and Miranda talks about how he was the product of an illegitimate marriage and how his family owned slaves in the Caribbean, and Hamilton was able to immigrate to the United States because of his writing. This reminded me of the reading on the slave trade and sugar, which Diana Tran responded to, which went into the proliferation of slavery and how it was extremely common in these islands. Hamilton’s America showed us a real historical person who lived through these situations and in a way cements the things we’ve read about this semester.