"I think I did bit on public credit report We ought to have started from his geneology .A sequel to that should be the discussion about the movement of this most illustrious son 's escape from Nevis now St.Kitts and Nevis and his elope to St.Croix and emigration to North America.Later the Hamilton's education and the role he played in the early republic and the American revolution.Then the political Investment including the Titanic feud you raised and finally his unprecedented legacies and how they helped shaped the american society of a later years.As they say of whom the Gods love dies Young."
"You said he came from Nevis"
"No surviving records could substantiate this but that was what he said."
"Where is Nevis?"
"Go to library when u get home take your old map and research.You ll see its location in the British west indies.Like a sedentary backwater the island stood and was more than quite a conspicuous spot a colourful speck in the Caribbean where he was confined prior to his abscond to St.Croix and America.It was the crossroad of acrimonious maritime agression vying for sugar cane trade route control.You treat that further when you read related books at home."
Alexander was so dominant the way you spoke about him"
"That is why I called the only spare tyre in America.Others are careless and thoughtless.They lack discretion and barely think."
Uhmm....dad!"
"You think read all d books in that library you would out of hindred books i gathered only two spoke good yhings about him.They dont like him .Infact Woodrow Wilson calls him American mephistolpheles ."
"Uhmm"
"Now back to our discussion.Protestants were religious reformers who disagreed with Roman catholic methods of piety and broke apart like other groups.They started a movement called Anti clerical led to the revolution that lasted a tercentenary between 1300-1600 .This period gave birth to mordern times.They not included the dominant protestants but other movement sects like prebysterian,anabaptists and a host of others.Protestants were called Huguenots in France.They were guaranteed religious tolerance.
King Louis XIV later revoked this edict that guaranteed this tolerance to that was pioneered by the movement.You know the puritans left Britain for America and places like Australia, Holland where they settled b
took along with them their tradition including common law beliefs.
John Fawcette on August 21,1718 was married to a British woman Mary Uppington.They had two kids And and John but gave birth to John two months before wedding.First they lived as common law couple and decided to formalise their conjugal knot with the birth of second child.Overall they had seven children and only two survived infancy including Hamilton's mother Rachel."
"Jesus"
"What is it?"
"You said five children like me died!"
"Oh that's a bagatelle boy because in those days the Sugar Islands were frequently raided by barbaric epidemics like malaria, dysentery and yellow fever.So many unfortunate children perished in this way."
"So Rachel the greatest mother in world history survived?"
"Yeah,with her sister Ann.But Rachel too early at 35years.She didn't live long too."
"Uhmm...."
"When a mystic plant disease exacerbated by drought ravaged Nevis in 1737 and laid bare of vegetation the island later lost its treacle of economic eminence.Hence, there was migration of refugees including Ann Fawcette married to plutocrat James Lytton.They later settled for a Danish island of St.Croix the same route that Hamilton's parents later charted.Mary had perpetual marital squabbling and when she appealed to the Chancellor of Leeward Island later resorted to separation from the embittered husband.They live separately thereafter after 1740 settlement and he renounced all rights to husband property for a mere Fifty three pounds."
"That's quite swindling .
"Yeah my boy that is what they called legal norm one time alimony or parthing Short alimony and that is why mordern age in this context has churn out mordern brutes in sheep clothing.Now freed from battering Into single parenting, Rachel and her mother who had surrendered all claims to Faucette wealth left Nevis into St.Kitts where the then sweet little 16years Rachel first met her future husband James Hamilton a young Scottish Noble.When in 1745 Rachel father John Faucette died,he bequethed all properties to her.Very few educated high heeled strong-willed European women adorned the natural luxuriant beauty of West Indies hotly contested for marriage like Rachel.Then they moved into St.Croix like Ann to start anew.They built massive estate outside the capital Christiansted which they dubbed the Grange.They met the Lyttons who introduced them to one Johann Lavien.Johann Michael Lavien a Dane also from Nevis grew from being a peddler of house hold goods and dreamt of being a planter . According to Hamilton who branded him'a fortune hunter'this Dane ended up being the nemesis of Faucette's wealth.He had had multiple disappointment as subtle person who dreamt of plucking gold in new world.As an affluent suitor the flashy dresser and a dapper concealed his threadbare miser status with sweet tongue poached the snug fortune of 16years old girl deceived Mary Fawcette to auction out her daughter to the miser bidder.Somebody who was 28years old a dozen years gap.Unfortunately the forced marriage that took place at the Grange in 1745 ended up untimely in fiasco like her mother's .The spendthrift husband squandered the lady's fortune who having found her husband mean and crude was exasperated to abandon house in 1750 two years after he squandered her wealth in an abortive sugar plantation."
"Double tragedies! mother and daughter same fate?"
"Of course you have to blame the unsuspecting reckless mother who auctioned her child..Had she not wise enough to abandon the house probably the world might not have heard the birth and colossal fame of Hamilton.Only darkness or dark night brings out glorious morning.
Nevertheless the vindictive Levi ranted divorce decree and libeled her fleeting spouse and claimed she was Indecent , godless and branded her a whore.He was determined to humuliate and terrorise the innocent girl being the mother of his only son Peter Levine beyond stupor.He wielded Danish law that empowered man to jail his wife should she no longer reside with him and found wanton twice of adultery.Then he clasped Rachel into Christiansvaern the fort at Christiansted as camp girl and dubbed prostitute.A stain or a stigma that was pelted at hamilton throughout his life."
"I could see reason behind short lived life."
"Yeah that egregious stigma of psychological trauma is quite too heavy for rational mind to survive.
Whereas the obscure insinuation had no basis in verifiable fact."
"Not guilty of adultery yet she was taken to prison."
"Injustice in a male dominated society hardly ends even in this epoch of growing feminism.Feminist movement blasted the nonchalant cities beginning from 1960s 70s period of civil rights movement.
Hamilton smelt the affront deeply whenever he was labeled the 'son of a camp girl'.She was tormented with dread and loneliness on the edge of Gallows bay at Fort Christiansted where she was probably the first woman to be jailed for adultery."
"Jailed for adultery! sounds too clownish a common place thing in 21st century."
"Imagine terror cells meant Invidious black criminals! Terror cells that were meant for rebellious blacks who had committed slave Insurrection a ghastly abode with inexplicate and indescribable terror unleashed on Petty thieves and societal dissidents cramped in filthy dungeons and shackled with heavy leg irons.Despite the ordeal did not deter the invincible spirit unquenchable fire of recalcitrant Rachael to obtain freedom fleeing her crude spouse who had hoped she would be subdued by internal torment .She was convinced to exit slavery she badly needed oddious Strategy and she did the unthinkable after she was released.She spent a week with her mother and then she fled the island, jettisoned the wife beater and Peter her son.She must have been Inspired by her with similar experience who probably mused her initiative to abscond.When she made the previous abscondwith her mother,she wasn't running the show manned byher tutelage.With this attempt she was to chart a new path that would change the world history for the better and transform the destiny of mankind forever.With landmark architecture of mainland America,it can be said mankind today is behemoth heiress to Hamiltonian universe of Civilization golden age."
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