General Discussion

He'd cleaned Britain's clock several times in battle, Yorktown comes to mind. He then went on to negotiate favorable trade agreements with them, the new country would have been sunk without markets and France was already looking pretty shaky. He shaped the Treasury and instituted the first national bank. He's also the primary author represented in The Federalist Papers, a body of writing that has been haggled over and misinterpreted by hagglers and misinterpreters since the day they were authored.

I don't find him a particularly sympathetic character no matter who is padding his bio or what music it has been set to. Still, he did make some valid contributions to shaping this country and was one of the reasons it managed to survive its infancy until it got real and wrote a constitution that worked, at leat for white male landowners.

Yes, his trade agreements prolonged slavery, but one has to ask if this country had been reconquered by colonial powers, if slavery would have been on their list of things to abolish. Somehow, I doubt it. It's the way the world worked back then when rich white guys ran it.