The 3/5ths rule was negotiated twice. Once during the Articles and once during the Convention. The first time the North wanted to count the slaves so they could tax the South more heavily. The second time the North didn't want to count the slaves as people because it would increase the power of the South. So basically the North and the South didn't care about the slaves at all except in how much power they could get from their use. Once again: The North only supported the counting slaves as people to gain power over the South, as soon as they stood to lose anything they dropped the slaves being people issue like it was a bee hive.Funny wow people try to change history...but I guess it is Hi(s)story .....The compromise on the 3/5 rule came about due to delegates against slavery generally wished to count only the free inhabitants of each state. Delegates supportive of slavery, on the other hand, generally wanted to count slaves in actual numbers. Since slaves could not vote, slaveholders would thus have the benefit of increased representation in the House and the Electoral College...those tricky damn southerners....
I swear, next you will be saying the civil war was over slavery.
It was obvious when you brought the 3/5th rule up that you didn't know much about it, and it is still obvious. Let me refresh your memory:
that lincoln character was poisoned and evil, then. fucking asshole.
lyndon johnson? poisoned and evil. pure fucking asshole, that guy.
founding fathers? poisoned and evil bunch of mother fucking assholes with their 3/5th rule.
george w bush? didn't i see him talk about the achievement gap? that stupid, evil, poisoned asshole.
fuck all of them and anyone else who had been unable to talk politics without the avoiding the inevitable: the necessarily intertwined relationship of race and politics.
welcome to the real world. you'll find that it differs greatly than the ideological fantasy ayn rand land in which you have been residing.
you know, the fantasy land where child labor is okey dokey and race should never come into politics.
fucking rube.