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Why were the characters in the Hamilton musical were black?

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The casting of the show was no accident. Lin-Manuel Miranda rewrote the Founding Father narrative to purposefully reflect the kind of country we live in today. Choosing to cast the founders of our country as people of color may not be ‘historically’ accurate, but it is culturally accurate as a reflection of a 21st century nation built by immigrants.

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