05-26-2023, 08:40 PM
(05-26-2023, 02:44 PM)GMDino Wrote: 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?
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
(05-26-2023, 08:31 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Hmm, people in power on "his side" of history want to limit slave owners from counting owned people as citizens for purposes of limiting their power to expand such, yet he claims that you were wrong for pointing that out??
Interesting..
Or should I say, how convenient..
Consider the alternative: Slave holding states would have been rewarded with increased power via increased representation; therefore, benefiting from the continued ownership of other humans.
