No amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they’re erasing people of color from the actual narrative."...all of the main characters are being played by people of color, but there are no historical people of color represented." Rebecca Onion interviewed Lyra Monteiro It is problematic to have black and brown actors stand in for the great white men of the early United States in a play that does not acknowledge that the ancestors of these same actors were excluded from the freedoms for which the founders fought. This realization brings attention to a truly damning omission in the show: despite the proliferation of black and brown bodies onstage, not a single enslaved or free person of color exists as a character in this play.(From Monteiro's paper, Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the BlackPast in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton