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X account @justinwangx The post uses the controversy over counting the enslaved population during the U.S. constitutional era as an example to discuss the historical phenomenon of recognizing others as human while simultaneously enslaving them.
This reminds me of how, when drafting the Constitution, it was the Southern states that wanted slaves to be counted as full people. And the Northerners that didn't.
And how in history people have at times wanted to recognize others as humans, but still enslaved them.
This reminds me of how, when drafting the Constitution, it was the Southern states that wanted slaves to be counted as full people. And the Northerners that didn't.
And how in history people have at times wanted to recognize others as humans, but still enslaved them.
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There is insufficient basis for the interpretation “X account: The North and South held conflicting positions on counting the enslaved population during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution”; the existing materials support only factual excerpts.
The specific impact has not been established.
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