The arrival of Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' on Disney+ has spawned a new round of criticism about the musical's portrayal of the Founding Fathers.
last year, Louisiana State University history professor – and Aaron Burr biographer – Nancy Isenberg called the musical"a fictional rewrite of Hamilton. You can’t pick the history facts that you want."that she had some issues with how "Hamilton""idealizes the founders, and how such a brilliant musical dangerously elides realities of slavery.
In the Twitter thread Miranda responded to, Clayton, who copped to being"a high ranking priestess in the church of Hamilton," said she"would have appreciated more context" about the real-life Founding Father's involvement with slavery,"but to lump it in" with the current controversy of what to do with statues of historical figures like Christopher Columbus and Robert E. Lee"denies this conversation the nuance it deserves we’re capable of giving it that.
"Navigating history and historical figures is hard and messy. Humans are flawed and messy, both the ones who lived then the ones reading and writing about them now."
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