Racist!

Nope.

Hey, it's better than three-fifths.

Owners didn't vote for their slaves because slaves had no vote. The Three-Fifths Compromise came about when the states were trying to determine how many Representatives each state would have in the House.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/three-fifths-compromise

No it wasn't. And you weren't even half right.

And my remark wasn't racist in the least. I was pointing out that whites aren't subject to bullshit like the Three-Fifths Compromise, which didn't benefit blacks, free or slave, in the least.

If that was the case, the slave states would have never accepted it.

That's what I've been saying all along.

You called me racist in the remarks you deleted, liar.

The only time I called someone a racist on this thread was Michel, and she has said some very racist things to me before. She deleted memes to remove the evidence.

You jumped in and said “Nope”, probably thinking I meant you, but I never said it directly to you.

Otherwise, you would have brought it up in your reply, which you didn’t.

My entire comment was (mistakenly) about how the slave owners could get 3/5 of the votes for their blacks salves instead of one each.

Try again.

It wasn't done to limit the power of the slave states. The free states were pressing for only free people to be counted as population for apportionment purposes. The Three-Fifths Compromise gave the slave states more representatives, not fewer.

Did you even read the link? If only free people were counted as population, the slave states would have had fewer representatives, not more. The Three-Fifths Compromise gave the slave states a higher population count, hence more representatives.

The slave states considered themselves fortunate to have gotten even that. Why should a slave, who had zero voting rights, should be counted as one whole person for the purpose of representative apportionment? You sound like you're in favor of that.

But the slave states got more representatives than they would have gotten if only free populations were counted. Thr free states were the ones who compromised on this issue.

If the slave states hadn't accepted it, it wouldn't have been adopted. They favored it. Free states wanted only free people to be counted as population. They're the ones who gave in with the Compromise. Duh yourself.