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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Of course it had to do with racism. You can't count a person as only 3/5. The north didn't want them counted as people yet they are credited with restoring their status as free human beings. Do you see the irony? [/quote]

Please go read some real history about this.  The 3/5 compromise was formed long before the Civil War at the Constitutional Convention (1787).

It was a political decision.  Of course, slavery was wrong--but, this was not about trying to get rid of slavery, but how to count the slaves in the census.  Wikipedia is not always the best source, but this is a pretty simple description:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise

Counting the slaves as 3/5 was a compromise--the Southern states wanted them counted as full--so they would get more votes.  North did not want them counted at all.  Racism was not the issue here, politics was.

You cannot change history just because it suits your political outlook.

Slavery was a despicable and horrible institution--but, when people throw around the 3/5 person argument (which does sound awful), they do not understand what the compromise was about.  It was the North that did not wanted them counted as whole--not because they did not see them as whole people, but they did not want the South to have the votes.  FWIW, women were counted as whole even though they did not get the vote--but that was true in the North and the South.

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