The US Constitution, 3/5, and the Slave Trade Clause: Crash Course Black American History #9

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The US Constitution, 3/5, and the Slave Trade Clause: Crash Course Black American History #9

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The drafting and adoption of the United States Constitution recalled many of the high ideals of liberty and freedom that were espoused during the Revolutionary War. But the compromises that were made to get all of the new states on board to ratify the Constitution undermined those ideals in a lot of ways. Today we'll learn about the 3/5 Clause and the Fugitive Slave clause, which entrenched the institution of slavery in the fundamental law of the new United States.
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VIDEO SOURCES
-David Waldstreicher, From Revolution to Ratification (New York: Hill & Wang, 2009)John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, 3rd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1967).
Interpretation: The Slave Trade Clause | The National Constitution Center, , constitutioncenter.org/intera... (last visited Nov 13, 2020).
-Article 1 Section 9 Clause 1 | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress, , constitution.congress.gov/bro... (last visited Nov 13, 2020).
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@TheStapleGunKid Жыл бұрын

Slave owners: "Our slaves are property! They have no human rights" Also slave owners: "Slaves are people, therefore they should count in out population statistics" Basically slave owners would only accept the humanity of slaves whenever it was personally beneficial to do so.

@Allovimo 3 жыл бұрын

"Sometimes American history demands that we hold sets of complicated truths at the same time." I. Love. This. So. Much.

@nariu7times328 Жыл бұрын

I remember when I first learned about the 3/5 rule, I was in elementary school in the 70s. It blew my mind and broke my heart. I like this series a lot, thank you to all who worked on it.

@ancientswordrage 3 жыл бұрын

This is such a heavy subject, and you teach it so well. I'm in awe

@TheLyricsgirl5 3 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad this series exists

@kungfudenny577 3 жыл бұрын

Love the cadence of your speech. Gives the topic a heightened sense of gravitas.

@1038bro 3 жыл бұрын

the 3/5 compromise goes to show that compromise isn't always a great thing and it shouldn't be instinct. the moral and ethical failures of our ancestors and forefathers sadden me, but motivate me to make a better world

@Tonytonytone582 3 жыл бұрын

“…..nah” lol I liked that part

@jamestown8398 3 жыл бұрын

On the William Lloyd Garrison's quote, a similar sentiment would be expressed by President Abraham Lincoln. Here's what he said in his second inaugural address: "Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'" In other words, he described slavery as America's Original Sin and the horrors of the civil war as God's punishment for that sin.

@Tonytonytone582 3 жыл бұрын

This was very informative. I had heard of the 3/5 compromise, but I didn’t really understand how and why it happened.

@idbuyanewbmx 3 жыл бұрын

That intro was fantastic! Perfectly stated.

@FootballRob2010 9 ай бұрын

Very well done video. I appreciate taking the emotion out of the conversation and just teaching us historical facts about the United States.

@WaterO2H 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for helping us to understand subjects that we struggle to understand 😄 Keep up the good work!

@anthonyjeter4643 Жыл бұрын

This was an awesome piece!!!!

@humanbeing4995 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@S8770610I Жыл бұрын

3/5 of a person! Damn, I can't help it. Its ridiculous and honestly ... insulting. I'm ethnic Chinese and such a clause is ridiculous.

@Mumra2K 3 жыл бұрын

This series is so important. Thank you. I am looking forward to the next one!

@kendaileymove8128 Жыл бұрын

Great content

@emanuelatenca83 3 жыл бұрын

This series is truly eye-opening. Thank you Crash Course and thank you dr Smith

@anveshas1306 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Thank you so much for helping me understand black American history (or at least a part of it) ! I've never thought about it this way!

@dntwachmewachtv Жыл бұрын

3/5 of a human! This is still heartbreaking to me! My people are so resilient!!!

@PoggoMcDawggo 3 жыл бұрын

Love this series!

@angelasalas5692 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for creating this!

@brootham9979 2 жыл бұрын

Stuff I never knew! Thanks for the opportunity to learn .

@justmyopinion9883 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this video. Enslaved Africans were very instrumental in creating America's early wealth weren't they?

@JLREQ195 4 ай бұрын

This just shows us how powerless we really are ..

@jenhalbert3001 Жыл бұрын

And women weren't included at all, but for very different reasons.

@Jellybeanirishgreen Жыл бұрын

it was said, 17 of the 55 delegates to the constitutional conventional owned 1,400 slaves. so 17

@clinetalbo 3 жыл бұрын

Frederick Douglass supported the US Constitution and disagreed with William Lloyd Garrison about the buring constitution. Douglass knew that thw Constitution could be amended and did not need to be eradicated. Slavery was a very complicated issue at the time, just like abortion is today. Many members in Congress would never personally would never get an abortion, but do not want to tell others what to do in their private lives. They stopped the slave trade, but unfortunately Americans were too attached to the economics of slavery, as mentioned in this video.

@2ksirmason827 5 ай бұрын

And to be exact we our o 1/3rd of a person

@aprildawnsunshine4326 3 жыл бұрын

Your regular reminder that slavery is still legal in the united states and happening in prisons all over the country.

@thetruth-hl7ct Жыл бұрын

It wasn't "three-fifths of a person", it was three-fifths of ALL other persons", meaning 3/5th of the POPULATION of those persons, not of the persons themselves. Individual slaves weren't being counted as a fraction of a human being, in some racist notion of blacks being somehow less than human.