It was, in fact, a concession by the slaveholding south to anti-slavery opinion. One can always debate the merits of compromises, but counting slaves as full citizens for apportionment purposes, when they had no legal rights, would have been much worse.https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1389603810142789632 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Yes. But...I'm still curious what the exact context was for this state representative to bring it up.
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Replying to @AstorAaron
These kinds of tweets are designed to not say that.
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