Why was Hamilton not popular with the great majority of people?

Question

Why was Hamilton not popular with the great majority of people?

Answer 1

He may have owned household slaves himself (the evidence for this is indirect; one biographer interprets it as referring to paid employees, and he did buy and sell them on behalf of others. He supported a gag rule to keep divisive discussions of slavery out of Congress, and he supported the compromise by which the United States could not abolish the slave trade for twenty years.