Why the Three-Fifths Compromise Was Good for Black Americans

November 1, 2016 Mark Austin 0

“We used to count black Americans as 3/5 of a person.” That’s in the title of a Washington Post article published in August of 2015.[ref]https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/21/we-used-to-count-black-americans-as-35-of-a-person-instead-of-reparations-give-them-53-of-a-vote/?utm_term=.451c3084892b[/ref]  […]