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why was it not even when it came to 1 slave equals 3/5 of a white person

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why was it not even when it came to 1 slave equals 3/5 of a white person

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Why where people so un including and lieing in there laws back then like they said they equal but then did not make them equal?

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no

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How did they decide which  would be used. (Like if someone was once a slave, and wnet to another state, how would they choose which law to follow in that new state) or woudl they just be free?

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Was this a driving factor to the civil war. (3/5ths compromise)

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what was the last country to abolish slavery?

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Where slaves a big problem to our government

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What made people think of the act of slavery? How did they not feel bad about what they were doing to other people?

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How badly did this affect our government?

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Why were they not equal and only 3/5 when in the document it said that all men are equal... Do Not Make Sense

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If a slave owner were to bring his slaves into the Northwest ordinance, would they never be free because of the Dred Scott decision?

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why did slaves not escape earlier  an why didn't we treat people equal?

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where was the border and who decided this

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because sometimes people have conflicting ideas

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i get that slaver was not allowed in MI but why are slave considered 3/5 of the population. 

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i get that slaver was not allowed in MI but why are slave considered 3/5 of the population. 

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Why did they pick 3/5 as the slaves worth when they did more work than any other white man or woman 

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Why did they pick 3/5 as the slaves worth when they did more work than any other white man or woman 

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Why did they choose to only have slaves as 3/5 of slaves? It doesn't make sense to me. Did they not want the slaves to be represented at all? If so, then why did they choose three fifths?

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I wonder why they didn't consider the slaves to be considered human. They just viewed them as property.

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Why didn't the north and south fight earlier over the 3/5th's compromise and all of the rules and what you can and cannot do because they have been arguing for probably 10 years

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why did the 3/5 compromise say that slavery equals just 3/5 of a person as a slave, yet the declaration of independence say that all men are created equal? why did the northwest oridience didn't allow slaves to be free when the slaves went into their area where no slavery was allowed?

I am so glad slavery is not allowed in Michigan at the time and today.

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Was the dred scott case decided due to a group of primarily pro slavery judges

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Where slaves blamed for affecting our government system?

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Why were slaves counted as 3/5 of a person and not 1/2 or 5/8 of a person?

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Why were slaves counted as 3/5 of a person and not 1/2 or 5/8 of a person?

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Why did they make slaves only 3/5 a person, while the Dec. of Ind. says that all men are created equal?
Also, why was it that Dred Scott was a still a slave while he was living in Illinois?

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Why was it only

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These three things contradict each other... Why would the government declare all men equal and yet still allow slavery. Why were these laws not changed sooner? If a slave entered a territory where slavery wasn't allowed then the slave should have been freed.

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why are slaves 3/5 of a person

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Did all white people sign the Declaration of Independence? If yes, did anyone think of other races besides their own?

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If a slave owner were to move and bring his slave into the Northwest ordinance, would his slave never be free because of the Dred Scott case?

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why were all of these ideas contradicting each other without one of them being changed

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These three things are contradicting. Is the relationship affected by the change in opinion of slaves throughout time? Or is there a different reason that all of these things have different relationships with the treatment of slaves  

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These three things are contradicting. Is the relationship affected by the change in opinion of slaves throughout time? Or is there a different reason that all of these things have different relationships with the treatment of slaves  

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What effects will this leave on the relationship between the north of the U.S. and the south of the U.S?

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How did they decide that slaves would only count as three fifths of a person while still saying that all men are equal and then not having slaves in the new territory