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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 84 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

Ah, I have a modest proposal. Let's count 60% of maternal deaths from black women. /s

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I might be wrong, Frank, but my reading of the text says that freed slaves fall under “the whole Number of free Persons” and thus count as 1, not three fifths.

The three fifths compromise just said slave states shouldn’t get to count slave population to get more representatives. The non-slave states wanted them not to count at all, since they don’t get representation regardless. It’s wild to me that we think of the “three fifths of all other persons” thing as the bad part, rather than the “rich assholes who owned people got more representation than those who didn’t own people because the people they owned counted toward their representative allotments.” After all, the slave owners wanted slaves to count as a full person. The problem, as always, was slavery.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

I read this in Dennis’s voice

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