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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes!

From the article:

“The Southern slaveholders wanted all slaves counted as people. It was the Northerners who wanted only free people to count! This was because the Northerners didn’t want the slave states to have a larger representation in Congress by counting their ‘property.’”


10 posted on 09/19/2022 4:18:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Women didn’t vote either

Should have made them just 1/5

Lol


53 posted on 09/19/2022 6:26:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic)
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