Posted on 12/11/2019 7:41:18 AM PST by ladyjane
How many african natives did it take to capture their fellow countryman and sell them into slavery?
White people also used to be slaves so what’s the point of this stupid question?
My ancestors basically were. The landownners in the Ukraine used to own everything and the people who lives on the land owned nothing. The landowner gave them everything they needed but they didn’t own a thing themselves. It was all owned by someone else.
You worked for them or starved.
There were no Republicans OR Democrats at the time of the 3/5 compromise.
The anti-slavery faction didn't want slaves to count AT ALL, since counting them would INCREASE representation of states where slavery was legal.
The slave states wanted to COUNT their slaves, FOR THE PURPOSE of increasing their representation to make the House of Representatives permanently pro-slavery once 1808 arrived and Congress would have the power to ban the slave trade.
The compromise was to count the number of slaves x 3/5, so the slave states would have SOME increase in representation but not as much as they wanted.
The 3/5 compromise was a DEFEAT for the slave states.
Not sure Massachusetts was really a slave free state. There were slaves there then. They were called something else in the census
There were very likely slaves there for years after 1783, but officially and so far as the government was concerned, they had abolished it. Actually, their courts abolished it for them by misrepresenting the meaning of their state constitution.
As usual, liberal courts deliberately misinterpret constitutional law to mean what they want it to mean.
In any case, Massachusetts was "officially" a free state.
“It was a compromise with the Democrats that resulted in slaves only being counted as 3/5 of a person.
The Republicans wanted them to be counted as a full person like anyone else.
That is an important part that should have been included in the lesson.”
Democrats haven’t changed much. They always want to skew who votes and who doesn’t.
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