09-14-2008, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
Slavery was never in the constitution. Most people are over looking that fact as well.
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U.S. Constitution, although the words slave and slavery are not found anywhere in the document. Section 2 of Article I states that apart from free persons "all other persons," meaning slaves, are each to be counted as three-fifths of a white person for the purpose of apportioning congressional representatives on the basis of population.
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http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secess...onslavery.html |
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