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In Hamilton, Aaron Burr has the line "I hear wailing in the streets" after he kills Hamilton, but Hamilton had a tarnished reputation and was unpopular at the time. Were common New Yorkers (or Americans in general) as distraught as the play would suggest?

by /u/sweaty_garbage in /r/AskHistorians

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