[Bidimus1]

The 3/5th person is about as imposed as it gets.

[CSM]

“The 3/5th person is about as imposed as it gets.”

This shows you have no understanding whatsoever of the time, nor of the founders intention. The 3/5th’s clause was a victory for the anti-slave position, not a diminishing of persons of a certain color. That all of the states adopted this clause, including the pro-slavery states, is proof of the accomplishment of the founders.

[Smokin' Joe]

As I said the imposition (creation of the state of slave and master) is something which predated the founding of this nation on these shores, and goes back thousands of years elsewhere. Those who arrive here in a state of bondage had that state imposed upon them elsewhere, and only continued it here.

Blaming the founders for slavery in what is now the United States is ludicrous. They did not invent the institution.