A People's History Chapter 32 Summary

In Chapter 32 Chernow explains the least popular piece of legislation of Adams presidency. The Alien and seditions acts not only brought back distrust between neighbors paralleled to that of the Salem Witch Trials. But the acts were made into a scape goat for many politicians to fight against each other. The acts pretty much brought the downfall of the federalist party for many years to come. Hamilton in wanted revenge against the author who released information about the Reynolds affair and supported the acts for the soul purpose of accusing writers. In this chapter Hamilton is also made the inspector of the army which for republicans was a very unpopular decision. Newspapers, such as the Aurora and The Argus, cast him as the Amorous General. Although, Hamilton didn’t control that many men and needed presidential approval for any attack made on foreign or domestic disturbances the newspapers didn’t know this. Thusly when Hamilton gained enough evidence for a case of Libel against The Argus. …show more content…
Hamilton during this time bought slaves for the Churches family. However, in 1799 during an anti-slavery meeting that Hamilton was a part of one of the Churches slaves so happened to pop up as one of the main premises of the meeting. Much to their surprise Sarah, the slave in question, was freed with thanks to Hamilton. This chapter also doesn’t focus on Hamilton but instead shifts its focus on Eliza the lesser known Hamilton of the family. She always tried to erase herself from the history book destroying letters and ledgers with her name. Thusly many have forgotten her involvements in progression of under privileged students nearly nonexistent. However, there are some records of the Hamilton family being constantly packed with young people. According to many the Hamilton’s was a place of refuge bustling with orphans left and