The ship owners who brought the slaves to America were almost entirely northerners. Northerners, the people who ended up forcing the South to count blacks as 3/5’s of a person for representational purposes. Northerners, who had rigged the tariff and export laws to the extent that they (northerners) were making almost as much money off of slavery as were the plantation owners of the South. Yea, north good, South bad. Stick it.
I never said the north did nothing. I said the south did to africans worse than lincoln did to them. Bite on that reb
Stop playing the fool.
The Slave trade was ended in 1808 by Act of Congress. The last slaves brought into the country were owned and operated by Southerners.
“forcing the South to count blacks as 3/5’s of a person for representational purposes.” At the Constitutional Convention Southern representatives insisted that slaves count one for one for the purposes of representation. The Northern representatives insisted slaves not count at all for the purposes of representation. The compromise agreed to, by the conventions was that slaves would not count one for one or not count at all, but would count as 3/5ths of a person for representation. The compromise was agreed to all, the South was not “forced” to accept it. Stick it.