Every little kid when they think of America being free they
think EVERY PERSON was free after that point in time( at least I did). Slaves were
a big part of society at that time and were not free during or after the
revolution. These slaves were later counted as three fifths of a person for
voting rights but were not allowed to vote. I think that that is cruel not to
let someone you are counting as part of the population to vote. How they
counted them as 3/5ths of a person) was mean also. These people were
bought and sold as property during this time and their owners were not going to
give them up any time soon. The constitution even stated this much in its words
and that no person should steal another’s property (which included slaves). The
men that wrote our constitution and our declaration of independence were also
slave owners and many were in favor for counting them as so that way they would
have a bigger representation and mostly the southern countries who believed in
it more than the northern ones.
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