The Three-Fifths Compromise may have solved the issue of representation in Congress, but it didn’t sit well with abolitionists. Write what you think abolitionists might have said about the compromise.

Answer 1

Abolitionists would likely have strongly opposed the Three-Fifths Compromise. They would have seen it as a compromise that perpetuated the injustice of slavery by counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation in Congress. Abolitionists believed that slaves were human beings and deserved full rights and representation, not a fraction of it. They would likely have argued that the Three-Fifths Compromise was a moral and political compromise, one that appeased slave-owners and perpetuated a system that denied basic human rights. Abolitionists would have seen the compromise as a betrayal of the American ideals of liberty and equality, and would have continued their struggle for the full abolition of slavery.