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Hence something called "3/5 compromise" which diluted political power of slave holders and while keeping slaves under their heel.
by clarionbell 4y ago
Hence something called "3/5 compromise" which diluted political power of slave holders and while keeping slaves under their heel.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoThat is exactly correct. It was the slave states that wanted slaves fully counted, while the free states didn't want them to count at all. People who go off about "3/5 of a person" don't realize that doing that made the slave states weaker, not stronger.
- Kbelicius 4y ago> People who go off about "3/5 of a person" don't realize that doing that made the slave states weaker, not stronger. That would be true only if the slaves could vote. Since they could not it made those states stronger.
- Kbelicius 4y agoNo, it increased the political power of slave holders since slaves couldn't vote but were counted as if they could.