• hddsx@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    That’s not the question they would ask. Slaves were considered property, not people. Well, until they became 3/5 of a person. And finally, much later on a full person.

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      3 months ago

      3/5 compromise wasent even about considering them as “mostly” people. It was about how they should be counted as far as a census was concerned, in order to determine the amount of congressional representation for that state. They still had no rights and were fully considered property.

      If only Jon brown had been one of the founders.

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        3 months ago

        Oh absolutely. It was the southern whites wanting more power than they are worth.

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      3 months ago

      Even during the 3/5th era, they were 0/5ths a person and an extra 3/5th a person to the slave owners who could actually vote. Spoiler alert: the slave owners did not vote with their slave’s best interests in mind.