These two plays show that having a cast composed entirely of African Americans/P.O.C actors and actresses does not alter the story nor the historical content behind it. The audience, at first, might be shocked at the fact that these important historical figures are being played by non-white people. But once overcome the initial shock, they would realize that casting African Americans/P.O.C does nothing to change the story. In Hamilton, the song Cabinet Battle #1, we have Jefferson and Hamilton arguing over Hamilton’s financial plan to tax the south to help with the debt “ Secretary Hamilton’s plan to assume state debt and establish and national bank”(4: 1-3). Even though the actors who are playing these characters are not white, it does not
