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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
You know who else wasn't breaking any laws? White Americans when we had slaves. Remember that... how did we justify that whole slavery thing? Oh yeah thats right the slaves weren't human, they were only 3/5's of a human, sounds familiar.
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That was in a time and place where the practice was accepted, where information was being spread to further notions that 'the negro can't take care of himself.'
Also, the 3/5 thing was merely a compromise between penny-pinching Northerners (Irish Businessmen, my people) and hypocritical Southerners (fat men with too much money on their hands, Michael Moore's people). They didn't want the law to recognize their slaves as anything more than property (which, constitutionally would have made slavery illegal) but they wanted the population head count for votes.
A popular misconception is the image of the tidewater plantation owner with hundreds of slaves. Fewer than 8% of slave owners in slave-states owned more than 10 slaves.