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Model35mech

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19. True, and states with few slaves didn't want that

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Sun Jan 21, 2024, 02:31 PM

Jan 2024

Ancestors on my mothers side held 2 slaves in Manhattan.
New York banned slavery in 1799.

that same ancestral line also includes an abolishonist minister in New Jersey who passed fugitives along to the underground railroad's Boonton Station,

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The intent was that black people were not fully human [View all] malaise Jan 2024 OP

My mother was born in 1917 in Alabama Frances Jan 2024 #1

Sick racists malaise Jan 2024 #2

I was born and raised in North Carolina... OldBaldy1701E Jan 2024 #21

Fully not human. Property. unblock Jan 2024 #3

True malaise Jan 2024 #5

Not technically enslaved, but many were not free and the law saw women as property of husbands. hlthe2b Jan 2024 #9

You get BINGO! jaxexpat Jan 2024 #20

Yup, property when married. And no voting rights in any event. unblock Jan 2024 #10

Or personal bank accounts malaise Jan 2024 #11

Women of any kind couldn't vote.... getagrip_already Jan 2024 #13

You nailed it malaise Jan 2024 #15

The 3/5th compromise wasn't the real problem. Allowing slavery at all was. unblock Jan 2024 #22

Slavery was actually still legal in many Northern States, up to and through the Civil War... Wounded Bear Jan 2024 #40

All true. unblock Jan 2024 #42

Still considered property by republicans keithbvadu2 Jan 2024 #26

Yes, property, not to be fully enumerated in a census Model35mech Jan 2024 #7

Counting them at all only benefited the slave states. unblock Jan 2024 #16

True, and states with few slaves didn't want that Model35mech Jan 2024 #19

That is the gist of their argument. No fine points about it. Thanks. erronis Jan 2024 #34

To understand Haley: How Indian immigrants benefited from cbabe Jan 2024 #4

Thanks malaise Jan 2024 #12

If you're referring to the 3/5ths Compromise, it was actually worse. Girard442 Jan 2024 #6

Precisely malaise Jan 2024 #8

It's a shame we can't have votes of Republicans count only as 3/5ths. LiberalFighter Jan 2024 #14

In fact, they generally count more than democrats unblock Jan 2024 #23

Listening to Haley BaronChocula Jan 2024 #17

Whoopi Goldberg said it best. BonnieJW Jan 2024 #27

I saw that she said that BaronChocula Jan 2024 #39

Perfect malaise Jan 2024 #29

The Massive, Overlooked Role of Female Slave Owners It's estimated that 40 percent of slave owners may have been white w cbabe Jan 2024 #18

Wow the Southern Belle was pretty raunchy and gross Farmer-Rick Jan 2024 #24

So, Nikki... GiqueCee Jan 2024 #25

Two things cilla4progress Jan 2024 #28

Please tell Nikki malaise Jan 2024 #30

Yah... cilla4progress Jan 2024 #35

Women are even less than that Warpy Jan 2024 #31

Nikki might be surprised how women of her ethnicity are viewed by the same MAGA morons she is sop Jan 2024 #32

I believe it. There is no bottom to their racist venom. CTyankee Jan 2024 #36

White men make up 30% of the population... surfered Jan 2024 #33

A lot of laws in this country were based on racism against blacks ... aggiesal Jan 2024 #37

I did not know this malaise Jan 2024 #38

my mum lived in America for decades with a green card Skittles Jan 2024 #41