It doesn't actually even say slaves. It details who is counted as a person, who is excluded (Indians not subject to taxation) and then everyone else is 3/5ths. I found it interesting that those who were indentured servants were counted as whole persons.
Judah On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Slaves were counted as 3/5 - nowhere does it say black slaves. > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I imagine that if you're a constitutional originalist race has to be >> counted - weren't black slaves counted as 2/3d's a person. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323406 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
