Explanation:
the compromise agreed on three fifths state slaves in apportioning representatives, president electors and direct taxes
As the demand for slaves grew, the Portuguese began to enter the interior of Africa to forcibly take captives; as other Europeans became involved in the slave trade, generally they remained on the coast and purchased captives from Africans who had transported them from the interior.
Mid 1600s is when the system of slavery started
The only amendment that has been repealed is prohibition.
It was repealed because it was hugely unpopular, totally ineffective and a large factor in increasing the power of the Mafia in the USA.
It was passed in the first place because of misguided nonsense paraded by well-meaning moralistic busybodies.
<span>Sort of like the war on the (rest of) drugs .... except many of those are still illegal and they were not part of a constitutional amendment.</span>
