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.
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.
