Both the person the first quote tweeted and the Quinton are pretty dumb because the founding fathers in terms of slavery were divided and even created the electoral system divided between slave states and free states.That why as one they both put in place things that kept slavery and helped end slavery simultaneously.
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They are also the reason that slavery didn't exist in half the other states. To attribute slave states to the Founding father while not attributing the free states is disingenuous.
Another thing the reason black people were seen as 3/5 is because the abolitionist, who were against slavery, could not get them to be counted as 0. You know why they wanted them to count as 0 Quinton? The states where debating taxes rates, representation, and things that were highly dependent on the populations of the state so the abolitionist knowing that the southern states would want to get black people to count as 1 to increase their political power opposed the representation of blacks as 1 person. The compromise came after non of states could come to a consensus so they compromised. This is why the argument can be made that giving even 3/5 helped keep slavery since the southern states grew to have a larger political power and therefore slavery was harder to get rid of.