The Twelfth Card.
Deaver is not stupid.
But he retails the stupid "three fifths of a man" whine.
It would have been better for the slaves had they not been counted at all.
See the 14th Amendment, Section 2.
Nay, had their number been subtracted from the state population in determining representation in the House, that would have been better, yet.
Deaver's characters stupidly compare this to the full counting of women, as disenfranchised as slaves.
Maybe Deaver is stupid, and doesn't see that while disenfranchisement of women favored males equally in all states disenfranchisement of slaves favored, in representation in the House, because slaves were counted at all, the power of voters in slave states over free.
And that diminished the power of those who would protect slaves or inhibit the power of their owners or, ultimately, abolish slavery.
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