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Post by gameboy on Apr 5, 2020 17:20:53 GMT
Regardless, it devalued African-Americans as being worth only 60% of a white person. In a true republic, they would have been counted as one person and given the vote. Counting three out of five slaves for legislative representation and taxing purposes based on population does not translate to individuals being "60% of a white person." I originally stated that slavery is enshrined in the U.S Constitution. It is. No one disputes that. It took the 13th Amendment and a Civil War to change that. Bottom line, black slaves were counted as .6 of a freeman. You said I was making shit up. And the fugitive slave act where escaped slaves can be apprehended in free states is also written into the Constitution.
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