Lin-Manuel Miranda: Award-Winning Musical Writer

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story of the birth of the United States in the late 1700s Other musicals have been set in this time and place But Hamilton broke new ground in several ways One thing that set Hamilton apart was its hip-hop music In the show Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton go head-to-head in a rap battle It was history told in a way it had rarely been told before Hamilton also included a surprising cast According to history the Founding Fathers were white men But in Hamilton ALEXANDER HAMILTON Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis a small island in the Caribbean Sea in 1755 or 1757 He came to the United States as a teenager During the Revolutionary War 1775 1783 he served as an aide to General George Washington After the war he was part of the group of men who wrote the US Constitution In 1789 Hamilton became the first US secretary of the treasury In this role he set up a national banking system On July 11 1804 Hamilton was shot in a duel with a political rival Aaron Burr He died the next day 8