“You are engaging in feminine emotion-based thinking.”
Nope, I’m dealing in pure fact.
“Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/three-fifths-compromise
“The three-fifths compromise was an agreement reached by the state delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Under the compromise, every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes. This agreement gave the Southern states more electoral power than they would have had if the enslaved population had been ignored entirely.”
https://www.thoughtco.com/three-fifths-compromise-4588466
“The 1787 Constitutional Convention addressed the apportionment in the House of Representatives and the number of electoral votes each state would have in presidential elections based on a state’s population. The Southern states wanted to count the entire slave population. This would increase their number of members of Congress. The Northern delegates and others opposed to slavery wanted to count only free persons, including free blacks in the North and South.”
https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/understanding-the-three-fifths-compromise/
The war with the British concerning our revolution ended in 1783, four years before this topic was discussed in Congress. We were not at war with the British at that time, just ourselves.
Next time you might want to discuss the issue before you question someone’s thinking rather than tell them what they are thinking. Liberals try do the thinking for us and then tell us what we thought.
wy69
You seem to be rather naïve on the topic. The Brits defeat did not magically make them go away. At the moment we defeated the British in the revolution, they were involved in a world war and we were but a small theater.
They never had the slightest intention of respecting our new nation and everyone knew at the first chance they got, that they would be back. So yes sparky, it was damned critical to get ready to face the Brits in a united manner.
And with the decade they were already harassing us, and our shipping, and impressing sailors. By 1812 they had returned and burned the White House. They almost took us back.
Then they tried to split us up again as the Civil War drew near. They prepped for the possibility of attacking us from the north from Canada, and helped the South all they could with blockaid running and trade. The Czar even sent his fleet to protect us from British fleets trying to attack us.
The Brits spent several decades after 1787 trying to invade or split us apart.
Try to keep up. Everything was not settled the moment the Revolutionary war ended.
“from 1793 and 1812 over 15,000 Americans were forced into British service in this way. As the impressment of U.S. citizens continued, American sentiment toward Britain grew increasingly hostile, exacerbated by flashpoint incidents such as the 1807 Chesapeake–Leopard affair. Meanwhile, the British were outraged by the 1811 Little Belt affair. Britain was supplying arms to, and trading with, Indians largely Algonquian peoples in the Great Lakes regions. These tribes were coming into conflict with European-American settlers on the American frontier and their raiding was hindering the expansion of the United States”
Had full abolition been demanded, the south would not have joined the union. The South would have remained individual states or maybe formed a loose confederation.
The War of 1812 would not have had a Brit army defeated at New Orleans. The war would likely have been lost. They the Brits would then regained control of the south if not outright capture.
Emotions and demanding everything up front regarding slavery would have ensured the fledgling nation did not survive more than another decade or so.