Topic: Put on your powdered wig and get out your quill and ink, it's the perfect year to read James Madison
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU started this discussion 8 years ago#75,403
Here's a fun fact about 2018: it's a "like year" for 1787. That means the days and dates are synchronized; e.g. May 14th is the third Monday in May in both years. What that means is you can read along and pretend you are right there with him in 1787 as he's writing.
Read along here. Today's reading is short and mostly arranging some preliminary structure for the convention that follows.
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He owned slaves and thought slaves should count as 60% of a person.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#889,284
@previous (Meta)
Read the notes along with us and find out what he thought and why he thought it!
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no thanks
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"At the Philadelphia Convention, Madison favored an immediate end to the importation of slaves"
The other problem of course was that Madison was a Christian. Christians have always been fucked up when it cums to treatment of people. They read the bible and failed to understand much between the covers Except the Bible promoted Slavery.