‘An Affront to Human Dignity’: Indiana Lt. Gov. Faces Backlash After Claiming Law That Declared ‘Slaves’ Three-Fifths of a Person Ensured ‘Justice Was Equal for All People’
Perhaps he doesn’t understand how fractions work. That’s about the only rationalization Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith could make for his appallingly inaccurate characterization of the Three-Fifths Compromise, an agreement reached between the North and South during the 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention that stipulated 60 percent of the enslaved population would be counted to determine…
