While warning (presciently) that populism would breed demagoguery and tyranny, Hamilton opposed slavery (establishing the New York Manumission Society), founded a school to educate frontier Indians (now Hamilton College), launched the Bank of New York (1784), argued for a permanent defense (standing army), and extolled the virtue and productiveness of commerce, industry, and finance.

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It took thousands of years for society to settle on the fact that slavery was wrong.

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But rather than look at slavery through the 21st-century prism of a more enlightened society, this exhibit presents the facts, stripped of any moral or political commentary, and looks at the business of the slave trade.

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In its 2006 ruling, the Florida Supreme Court noted the questionable tactics attorney Stanley Rosenblatt used to get those findings, such as repeatedly telling the inner-city Miami jury to think about how the cigarette industry divided society into groups and tried to exploit them, and making references to slavery and the unfair treatment of blacks under the law.

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