Slavery and the 3/5ths Clause....

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Ignorance, Stupidity or Manipulation
by Walter E. Williams

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass understood the compromise, saying that the three-fifths clause was "a downright disability laid upon the slaveholding states" that deprived them of "two-fifths of their natural basis of representation."

Here's my hypothesis about people who use slavery to trash the Founders: They have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty. Slavery is merely a convenient moral posturing tool as they try to reduce respect for our Constitution.
-Walter Williams

http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams87.1.html