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To: OneVike
Really was 3/5? Interesting, because most people think it 3/4, but does it matter, it was still less then one white person. So the point is still made.

I think you are probably correct that, due to the woeful state of public education, people who even know about the three fifths compromise think it was intended to denigrate black people in racist America. In reality, its purpose was to reduce the power of the slave states and it was backed by the abolitionists.

28 posted on 08/17/2011 7:47:53 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

thank you, my point exactly.


31 posted on 08/17/2011 7:51:38 AM PDT by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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