Hamilton provides a remarkably modern economic observation based on investment, industry, and expanded commerce. Most strikingly, it was an economic sight that had no place for bondage. Before the 1790s, the American economy North and South were personally tied to a trans-Atlantic system of bondage. States south of Pennsylvania depended on workers labor to produce rice, tobacco, cotton, and indigo. The northern states organize their most beneficial trade with the worker colonies of the West Indies. A member of New York's first antislavery society, Hamilton wanted to regenerate the American economy away from bondage and colonial trade.
