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@TheTattooedProf I’ll give you partial credit for that. ;-) But I’m not sure I agree w/ implication that Wilentz ignores everyone since him.
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@TheTattooedProf Fehrenbacher & Oakes make similar arguments. DF is the one who said you can see 3/5 clause as 3/5 full or 2/5 empty.
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@TheTattooedProf And Wilentz is right that Douglass himself sometimes construed the clause as a “penalty” on slaveholding.