Proof that nobody remembers anything they're taught in school. I distinctly remember learning that slave owners wanted blacks counted in full, abolitionists didn't want them counted at all. Everyone else only remembers the 3/5s part.
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Stop, I can only get so hard.
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"The real point of the 3/5th compromise was an attempt to buoy up the fading political influence of the South by counting each slave enough to preserve their power in the House. The important thing was an arms race between two competing groups of elites."https://colonyofcommodus.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/unraveling-civil-war-moral-hysteria/ …
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Great, no crazy Yankee in charge.
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