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Hamilton's mother.

Posted by:	Delvino 12:12 pm EDT 10/31/15
In reply to:	re: Hamilton-documentary vs show based on history? - ntjvy 06:40 pm EDT 10/29/15

In Chernow, it's clear that in the patriarchal colonial culture, Hamilton's mother Rachel, initially fleeing St. Croix, was a (sexual behavior determined:) "pariah." She was imprisoned on a technicality (twice an adulterer), branded a "scarlet woman, given to sinful life" as Cherow states. One of Alexander's nemeses, a journalist, even referred to him as "son of a camp-girl." Of course that's sexist hogwash. Yet the show captures the way people at the time viewed women who had any sexual liaisons outside of church approved marriage. It's critical to contextualize her struggles in light of the way women were marginalized if found to be anything but monogamous. To me, it makes perfect sense for this to be translated very accurately into "whore" in Burr's narrative voice.

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