it was anti slavery, preventing slave states from having more representation in congress.
teaching that it dehumanized slaves is not true, and that they were viewed as less than human is not true.
when will the stupid end.
This will just incite the stupid.
Honest answer: when Jesus returns. And not one minute before.
I’m not sure it’s possible for a leftist to understand the true purpose of that provision and why it was good. For one thing they’d have to shut up and really listen, then think. Something they are unaccustomed to doing.
It was actually an elegant masterstroke. The south denied the humanity of the slaves as full citizens, forbade the education, the vote, etc. The North simply said “Ok, cool, then how much of a person should they count as? 3/5ths sound about right?
Neither side got what they wanted. The north had to allow slavery in the union for a while, the south was denied the representation it’s population would have given them.
In return they formed a union and successfully defended it from the world’s superpower, England. Without this deal, England would have clawed the colonies apart one by one.
it would have been child’s play.