The letter is making a specific historical point about the slave trade clause in the Constitution. It‘s not inherently a weird argument. The cotton gin *did* make slavery more profitable.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1467597465792745483 …
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Bringing up the cotton gin is a distraction since even during the debate over constitution (i.e. before cotton gin) the fact that ending slave trade would profit Virginia was discussed.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1467709318296395782 …
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probably worth saying that Madison records one of the Pinckneys (Charles Cotesworth, I think) as arguing at the constitutional convention that Virginia would benefit from a ban on the importation of enslaved people because it could sell its surplus of slaves at inflated value pic.twitter.com/RlkcRZSSus
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