http://billofrightsinstitute.org/blog/2011/08/22/countdown-to-the-constitution-slavery/ Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://billofrightsinstitute.org/blog/2011/08/22/countdown-to-the-constitution-slavery/#comment-1096 Dina Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:15:13 +0000 http://blog.billofrightsinstitute.org/?p=1722#comment-1096 I was really cnoefusd, and this answered all my questions. I was really cnoefusd, and this answered all my questions.

]]> http://billofrightsinstitute.org/blog/2011/08/22/countdown-to-the-constitution-slavery/#comment-1094 Gennie Westbrook Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:00:38 +0000 http://blog.billofrightsinstitute.org/?p=1722#comment-1094 Great article, Jay! The passages you quoted provide an excellent window into the Founders' thinking on this most difficult issue. Stuart Leibiger points out in his talks with our teachers that the "three-fifths tradition" was based on the assumption that a slave, with no incentive or possibility to work for his own profit, could be expected to do about three-fifths of the amount of labor that a free man would do. Great article, Jay! The passages you quoted provide an excellent window into the Founders’ thinking on this most difficult issue. Stuart Leibiger points out in his talks with our teachers that the “three-fifths tradition” was based on the assumption that a slave, with no incentive or possibility to work for his own profit, could be expected to do about three-fifths of the amount of labor that a free man would do.

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