In honor of Hamilton’s release on Disney+, I am here to present to y’all five reasons why you are straight up SLEEPING on burr.
Behold:
1. The man was an abolishionist. And none of that phony “gradual abolishionist” bullshit either. He wanted it done and he wanted it done all in one go.
Okay that could have just been because he fucking hated Jefferson, but you know what—that was still a very radical ideology and the time, and he was one of the only founding fathers to vocally support it
2. He was a FEMINIST. Yeah you heard me—supported gender equality and pushed for his daughter (Theodosia) to have the right to an education. She later became one of the most educated women of her time, and all thanks to Burr.
3. The man literally tried to start America 2.0
You think I’m kidding? Google that shit. Tried to make his own country with the help of the spanish out in the western territories. There is some speculation, but it’s also believed he was planning on trying to overthrow the US government too. Sadly, Andrew Jackson (yeah fucking trail of tears Andrew Jackson—he can kiss my ass) ratted the man out.
Despite that, he was still left in charge of keeping the western territories under control, never tried for treason, and stayed on LITERAL spanish government payroll for the remainder of his life.
A fucking legend.
4. Alexander Hamilton was an elitist piece of shit who rigged the banking system to only support and loan money to the upper class. Burr, yes burr, said fuck that shit and fuck you and LITTERALLY STARTED a whole second fucking bank that all social classes could get loans from.
Icon.
5. My favorite. He outlived litterally all the other founding fathers.
So, at the tail end of his life, people began to track him down and interviewed him about the other founding fathers, because he was the only real tie anyone had left.
Burr, of course, being the ICONIC piece of shit grouchy old man that he was, used his power wisely, and highlighted many of them... unfavorably, you could say.
Basically, he shit talked them to his grave and no one else was alive to call him out.
I mean bro.
Now stop wasting your time on stanning slave owning piece of shit founding fathers and start stanning a litteral LEGEND who lived his best god damn life after Hamilton had an Unfortunate Accident.
And scene.
Wow. I didn’t know a post I made at two in the morning would insight more assholes than I have friends (that’s a joke there’s like three of you) (okay not really).
But BAM: here’s sources. I made an effort to keep it concise but if you want more let me know
Also, my mistake: the Andrew Jackson thing is still debated.
General James Wilkinson definitely squealed.
Andrew Jackson defended the man in court, supposedly, but that part of history gets fuzzy.
In short: we “know” what happened but everyone has a different story.
Sources:
https://npg.si.edu/blog/aaron-burr-forgotten-feminist
https://www.jpmorgan.com/country/US/en/jpmorgan/about/history/month/sept
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/aaron-burr-arrested-for-treason
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42638050.pdf?seq=1
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