[marktwain]

The U.S. government pretended that black people weren’t fully human and allowed legalized slavery to continue.

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If you are referring to the 3/5 of a vote compromise in the Constitution, you are misinformed.

That was a compromise to limit the power of the slave states.

The slaves might never have been freed without it, because the slave states would have had more votes to fight the North with.

[libertylover]

That was a compromise to limit the power of the slave states.

Exactly, the slave states, where slavery was legal.