"That jury? You call them men? That judge? Is he a man? The governor is no better. They play by the rules their forefathers created hundreds of years ago. Their forefathers said that we're only three-fifths human-- and they believe it to this day."
This book is in the time period of 1940s. The three-fifths compromise was an agreement between Southern and Northern states during 1787. This compromise established only three-fifths of the slave population was counted for taxation and representation in congress. Counting slaves as part of the population politcally favored the Northern states. However most of the Northern states did not want to count slaves at all, they believed slaves were property and held no power.
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