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Claire Oh Nette

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9. NJ Plan apportionment, not abolition

Reply to Hugh_Lebowski (Reply #7)

Wed May 5, 2021, 01:52 AM

May 2021

If you want to think Mr. Tennessee is accurate in his defense of the 3/5th compromise, be my guest.

He is not.

He's offering revisionist history. Not wanting to count Blacks is not the same as pushing to abolish slavery, just as giving Blacks 60% humanity didn't give them 60% of the vote.

lots of primary sources on line. All the half baked racist ideas are being trotted out by people with little grasp of actual history.

The New Jersey Plan was about apportionment, not abolition.

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Tennessee Lawmaker Is Criticized for Remarks on Three-Fifths Compromise [View all] TexasTowelie May 2021 OP

I'm kinda curious as to what degree what he said is factually incorrect Hugh_Lebowski May 2021 #1

The Virginia Presidents Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #3

"There was no real push to eliminate chattel slavery in setting up the house of representative ..." Hugh_Lebowski May 2021 #4

Zero Fifths / abolition Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #5

"The Constitution banned the Slave Trade" ... but this was not a hearty push? Hugh_Lebowski May 2021 #7

Importing slaves Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #8

Okay, well it kinda seems like banning the importation was definitely a shot across the bow, but if Hugh_Lebowski May 2021 #10

It's never good to assume, Hugh Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #11

Okay let me be clear what I'm getting at ... Hugh_Lebowski May 2021 #12

THe problem with the compromise is slavery Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #13

NJ Plan apportionment, not abolition Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #9

I wonder... Deuxcents May 2021 #2

No. LBJ called this 60 years ago. Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #6