Very true. In 1830s, there was a Virginia Constitutional Convention at which James Maidson promoted a 3/5ths compromise to reduce the political power of the Tidewater slave owners. The effort failed, which may have affected the Va's role in the Civil War & its partition.
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It was a compromise to keep slave owning States from getting more representatives.
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