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(05-26-2023, 02:01 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The ignorance about the 3/5th's compromise here is as sad as it is predictable.

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal/docs2.html

The exact text;

which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons

There is no mention of black people at all, in fact, a free black person was counted just the same a free person of any other ethnicity.  Also, this was done to prevent the southern states from having an outsized political influence by increasing their populations of enslaved people.  Is their racism inherent in the clause?  Absolutely, especially in reference to the indigenous population.  Were the vast majority of enslaved people black at the time of this writing?  Also, yes.  But to state the constitution only counted "black people" as 3/5th's of a person is a flat out falsehood and an insult to free black US citizens of the time and up to the end of slavery.  I don't think people like Frederick Douglass would appreciate this falsehood.

Lot of words to say the founding fathers were fine with slaves being 3/5 of a person.  Or, as you would prefer, two out of every five didn't count as a person at all.

My apologies for over simplifying on a message board...lol.

How many free blacks were there in 1776?

Quote:Before the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, few slaves were manumitted; on the eve of the American Revolution, there was an estimated 30,000 free African Americans in Colonial America which accounts for about 5% of the total African American population with most of free African Americans being mixed race.

So congrats on finding the exception to the rule. It only accounted for 95% of Blacks in the US at that time.

Same link:
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal/docs2.html

Quote:

Although the Constitution did not refer directly to slaves, it did not ignore them entirely. Article one, section two of the Constitution of the United States declared that any person who was not free would be counted as three-fifths of a free individual for the purposes of determining congressional representation. The "Three-Fifths Clause" thus increased the political power of slaveholding states. It did not, however, make any attempt to ensure that the interests of slaves would be represented in the government.