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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Its part of our ugly past. But the reality is without it, the US would have never been formed. And without the US...we might still have slavery on this continent.
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I would only quibble with your phrasing, preferring instead, "It's an ugly part of our past."
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I thought the first iteration was the correct one. As Faulkner said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
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Fundamentally, the compromise was not the problem. It was an external symptom of the problem.
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