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Was it Racist of Northern Founding Fathers to Insist that Slaves Only be Counted at 0.6?

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Was it Racist of Northern Founding Fathers to Insist that Slaves Only be Counted at 0.6?

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Firstly, to another answer, representation in Congress is based solely on the Census, not on the number of people who actually vote. Population is all that matters and slaves were members of the population of both Southern and Northern States. Most states at the time of the Compromise restricted the privilege to vote to white men who owned property, so a black slave who was not white and did not own property could not vote regardless of the master’s will. The Northern states, especially the ones which had no slavery, simply wanted to limit the power of Southern states in Congress, and were willing to discount all slaves from the Census, even at the cost of limiting some representation of their population. The South wanted to count the slaves in the Census and Northern states did not. What the Three/Fifths Compromise did was reduce the representation in Congress of the entire population of the South. The North feared the political powerhouse of the South and tried its utmost to stifle i

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