re: #240 Gretchen G.Tiger

Yes, taxes. Yet what was the result?

It wasn’t about taxes either — it was about apportionment of congressional districts. Should slaveholders have as much representation as all their slaves combined would have had if they’d been citizens/voters.

The result of giving slaves ANY count, even partial, is that slave-holding states had disproportionate representation in Congress and in selecting Presidents. (in 1860, when the country had a population of 30 million, there were 4 million slaves).