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Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women (www.vanityfair.com)

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 22 hours ago

I think although very vivid language it is quite defensible for the reasons Kuni mentioned: in the only context where slaves were actually defined as 3/5 of a person, all they could do was allow their masters to extract extra value through representation from them, as they did not get representation for being counted towards House representation.