Reviewers noted that Reed's perspectives are shared by many historians, who levied critiques about the historical accuracy of Hamilton after its release. But the truth still has to count for something.' Sure, putting blacks and people of color is a great diversity trick. Someone needs to tell the hipsters Hamilton wasn’t as hip as Lin Manuel-Miranda said. So people dance and rhyme to a hip hop beat, does that forgive Hamilton’s family, kneed-deep in slavery as slave holders in upstate New York? The musical glorifies Hamilton and his connections. Because it’s toning down the hate that’s in the history. The Haunting offers Reed's critiques of Hamilton, which include 'turning a blind eye to the Schuyler family's ownership of slaves and soft-pedaling Alexander Hamilton's elitist politics and his attitude toward slavery.' Reed stated that his goal for writing The Haunting was to 'be a counter-narrative to the text that has been distributed to thousands of students throughout the country.' Journalist Emil Guillermo observed: 'Reed’s play had an Off-Broadway run at the Nuyorican Café in New York last year, but he’d still like to see Miranda come clean about the theatrical juggernaut he created. Reed followed this with a second critique for the magazine in April 2016, titled ' Hamilton and the Negro Whisperers: Miranda's Consumer Fraud.' Reed likened the casting of a Black actor in the role of George Washington to a scenario where Jewish actors would portray Nazi officials Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Eichmann, and Adolf Hitler. and It's Not Halloween.' In it he accused Lin-Manuel Miranda of whitewashing Alexander Hamilton's role as a slave owner and his involvement in the genocide of Native Americans. Reed wrote a critique of the musical Hamilton shortly after its debut for the August 2015 edition of the magazine CounterPunch, titled ' Hamilton: the Musical: Black Actors Dress Up like Slave Traders. The Haunting received mixed reviews from critics.

Reed debuted the play in January 2019 with a four-night reading at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and the play was fully staged in May 2019 and ran for several weeks in the same location. The play echoes many critiques made by historians, such as the whitewashing of Alexander Hamilton. It critiques the acclaimed historical musical Hamilton (2015) through a depiction of a fictionalized version of Hamilton 's creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is visited by several historical figures missing from the musical in a style similar to Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda is a play by American writer Ishmael Reed.

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