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Lawmaker Slammed After Saying Three-Fifths Compromise Ended Slavery: Nothing Right About This People 11 hrs ago © Provided by People Mark Humphrey/AP/Shutterstock Tennessee state Rep. Justin Lafferty A Tennessee lawmaker was quickly chastised by colleagues in Tennessee for his remarks praising the Three-Fifths Compromise on slavery during a Tuesday debate on the statehouse floor. Tennessee state Rep. Justin Lafferty, a white Republican, incorrectly told his colleagues that the 1787 agreement between the northern and southern states was for the purpose of ending slavery. Not so: The compromise was an infamous solution agreed upon during the Constitutional Convention to count enslaved people as three-fifths of a person when determining population for taxation and political representation.

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