… pulse of that, but he also did believe in the capacity of people, regardless of their station in life, to improve themselves and to advance, because that's what he did. He [Alexander Hamilton] was a leader in the New York Manumission Society that wanted to abolish slavery in the United States. You know, Benjamin Franklin was that. John Adams. There was a bunch of them. But, you know, you had a lot of founders who were part of agrarian and plantations and these farming economies, and that was not something that they did at that time. (13:09–23:54)
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