Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers Said What?

It is interesting that Madison opposed the African slave trade throughout his life, yet was able to propose that compromise.>/i>

Madison originally proposed the 3/5ths compromise under the Articles of Confederation, so it wasn't new. As for Dopes idea of people panning it, Luther Martin was a founding father and an Anti-federalist. Many of the Anti-Federalists were against the 3/5 compromise, but they were against the Constitution. I haven't heard anyone pan it in current times, just wonder what it was about if they haven't heard of it.

So you have to give them a gist of the population, and that non-inheriting sons came over from Barbados and brought the heavy (bad) slave codes with them and by 1750 those slave codes took over throughout the Deep South. Incidentally, by the time of the Civil War, 20% of population the USA was black, and it was the opposite in the 13 colonies in the Caribbean, only 20% was white. So our southern states had developed means to keep the slave rebellions in line, etc., but the 13 colonies in the Caribbean were entirely dependent on the British Military to keep the slaves in line. This I have read to this point.

But you'll have people make the statement online that the United States was the only place to fight a Civil War over slavery,and that every other g compensated people, or voluntarily changed. What is up with the (implied barbaric) USA? I think the reasons were (not limited to) 1. Not dependent on the British military to put down slave rebellions, 2. Cotton was King (Biiiig money), and 3. those fuvkers saw themselves as aristocrats and were hotheads. Hell, the Citadel was started to teach military moves on how to put down slave rebellions.