The U.S. Constitution assertively recognized the slavery economy and implicitly incorporated strong white-supremacist ideas in such provisions, including the one that counted an African American as only three-fifths of a person.

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The U.S. Constitution, through provisions like the Three-Fifths Compromise, indirectly supported the slavery economy and reflected racial biases of the time by counting each enslaved African American as three-fifths of a person for legislative representation and taxation purposes.

The US Constitution Assertively Recognized the Slavery Economy and Implicitly Incorporated