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September Virtual Book Club
September 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Kickstarting the 2024 Season of the Alexander Hamilton Virtual Book Club will be Defeating Slavery: Hamilton’s American System Showed the Way by Nancy Bradeen Spannaus.
Could the United States have eliminated slavery without a civil war? In her 2023 book Defeating Slavery: Hamilton’s American System Showed the Way, Nancy Spannaus argues that the hope for doing so lay in adopting Alexander Hamilton’s principles for industrialization. As she documents, the American Revolution had created the strongest anti-slavery movement in the world. But without breaking with British imperial economics, that movement was doomed to failure. Hamilton’s American System offered the alternative, but was tragically sabotaged with the triumph of Jefferson, and then President Jackson. Join Nancy to discuss this crucial background to the political turmoil we are still experiencing today.
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Nancy Bradeen Spannaus is a public historian who has been studying American history, with an emphasis on its economic development in general, and Alexander Hamilton in particular, since the 1970s. In 1977, she co-authored a book of writings on the Political Economy of the American Revolution. After retiring from a career in journalism, in 2019 she self-published the book Hamilton Versus Wall Street: The Core Principles of the American System of Economics. In 2023 she self-published Defeating Slavery: Hamilton’s American System Showed the Way.
In 2017 she established the blog https://americansystemnow.com, which contains more than 600 articles on the history and principles of the American System of Economics, including many original sources from advocates of that system, such as John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln.
Nancy is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, and the Lincoln Group of D.C.
Wednesday, September 18th | 7:00 pm Eastern
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