SPJ (@clem460): "If they could no longer augment their # of reps with the 3/5 of former slaves, how did the 1870 census give them more power? Because they could then count former slaves as whole persons?"

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SPJ Sep 22, 2024

If they could no longer augment their # of reps with the 3/5 of former slaves, how did the 1870 census give them more power? Because they could then count former slaves as whole persons?

meaning that after the 1870 census the southern states would have more power in the Electoral College than they did before the war.

Heather Cox Richardson

Sep 22, 2024

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