Through American history, few people have made the significant impact that Alexander Hamilton made for himself through his influential and moving use of journalism. Alexander Hamilton was born as the illegitimate son to James Hamilton and Rachel Faucett Lavien in Nevis (a Caribbean island) circa January 11, 1757. Eventually his father would abandon him as well as his brother and mother after moving them to the island of Saint Croix. This turn of events would play a catalystic role in the start of Hamilton's later thinking. While in Saint Croix, Hamilton observed how slavery drove the economy there as well as how it resulted in the deaths of whites. His first known job was that of a clerk at the trading post of Nicholas Cruger and David Beckman at age eleven. While there, he learned to comprehend the fundamentals of commerce and accounting. Later in 1772, a hurricane hit Saint Croix which resulted in a then seventeen year old Hamilton writing a letter wh
ich described the storm, while at the same time questioned human nature and the wrath of God. Because of the letter, which was eventually printed in the local paper, friends began taking up a collection to fund a college education for Hamilton. Hamilton was later accepted into grammar school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey in 1772, and then later into King's College (now Columbia University). The year 1774 marked the year when Hamilton delivered his first well known public speech in Fields park of New York City (now City Hall Park). The speech defended the Boston Tea Party and brought up the point of democratically chosen delegates to the First Continental Congress. Later that year, he wrote two pamphlets, A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress from the Calumnies of Their Enemies and The Farmer Refuted, in response to the Loyalist propaganda signed "Westchester Farmer". Circa 1775, Hamilton joined the New York militia and later became captain of th
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