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Slavery was what murdered the South.

I’m a Southerner, but I’m glad slavery in the South is over. It was wrong.>>> Slavery or the counting of slaves as three fifths was written into our constitution. that was the mistake and one of the reasons why people trash the document today.

So you’re holding on to the legacy of a culture where the 1% who held slaves told the 99% what to do including die for them by the thousand, lost the war you started by shelling Sumter, spent the better of a century after that running around in bedsheets lynching people, tainted American white nationalism by setting off a bomb in a church and killing children, and are directly responsible for importing the descendants of the most violent and useless class of people in the nation en masse.

“Congratulations” is all I can think to say at the moment.

My fellow Freepers should know something that is left out of most history books: during the negotiations that produced the Constitution, it was a record-hot summer in an age of heavy woolen clothing and no air conditioning. So when the Southern states refused to budge and negotiations dragged on the delegates became exhausted in every sense. Mentally, emotionally and physically. Finally the northern delegates threw in the towel and said “slavery will die out on its own anyway.”

Needless to say, there were some pointed observations that this line went against every scrap of Biblical wisdom available, and the exact opposite proved true right up until the end.

counting of slaves as three fifths was written into our constitution. that was the mistake

Disagree.

The 3/5ths compromise limited the power of the South. If they had counted slaves who could not vote and were not citizens as “full” for representation purposes, the South would have a monopoly representation in the House.

Now maybe they should not have adressed the slaves at all but they did because it was a thorny issue back then. They also inserted language to stop the import of slaves after 1808, iirc.