It is Black Heritage Month, so here is a quick but important history lesson on the three-fifths compromise from Professor Imani Perry's incredible new book, "South To America: A Journey Below the ...

A Tennessee Republican lawmaker wrongly suggested on Tuesday that the infamous three-fifths compromise was an effort by Northern states to curtail the power of Southern slave-owning states with ...

Fox's Mark Levin: The Three-Fifths clause wasn't about slaves being "three-fifths of a person. They knew they were people, even among the slave holders, as diabolical as they were" July 13, 2023 00:00 ...

The three-fifths clause, William Jay once wrote, ensured the domination of “cotton, sugar and human flesh” in US policy. Many of the founders hoped that slavery would not last.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, by contrast, recently described the three-fifths clause, which counted three out of every five enslaved people toward each state’s share of congressional ...

Justin Lafferty, a state representative, was rebuked after offering a historical defense of the agreement, under which three-fifths of a state’s enslaved people counted toward its population.