True enough.
The Constitution recognized a practice in effect at the time of the creation of our nation. There are two oblique references to “those bound to Service” and “persons held to service or labor”.
The first is the 3/5ths rule you already referenced. The second is the Slave Clause - Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3.
George Orwell would be proud of the torturous machinations required to find a suitable euphemism because they were too timid to say the word aloud: Slavery.
But recognizing a practice and legitimizing that practice are two different things. Pragmatic northerners chose to turn a blind eye and offered the mealy-mouthed allowances as a sop to southern interests in order to gain what they all needed - a national union.
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Do you really think the Constitution would have been ratified by the Southern States if they knew “Abolitionists” would have stripped them of their property with “four score”?
No way Jose.
Regardless, we are where we are.
The 13% where doing better every year until the communists weaponized them in the 60’s.
Time to say, in my opinion, that current racial demographic of the country works, ALL citizens of every stripe need to be AMERICAN FIRST.
The “INEVITABLE WHITE MINORITY” BS being pushed by left wing Jews and Communists is done, this country is 62% white and is going to stay that way .
Severely limit legal immigration, and unless the Canadian or Mexican Government is persecuting a person, NO ASYLUM OF ANY KIND IN THE USA.
COMMUNISTS in DC and the Press and Academia must be NEUTRALIZED, no exceptions, if it takes mass arrests , seizure of assets , and executions, so be it.
Happy Independence Day
At the time, they were far more worried that the British would try to take them back than they were that the already several hundred year practice of slavery in America might continue awhile longer. In 1812 the British gave them good reason to fear being reabsorbed.
Also the slave states vastly outweighed the free states at that time. Had they chosen obstinance, they could have awaited the abolition of slavery in 1833 with the other British Subjects. No slavery, no Union.