The Mattatuck Museum now has an exhibit dedicated to Fortune, including a poem, called The Manumission Requiem, by Connecticut Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson.
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.