THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE
ARTIST STATEMENT
This is a drawing for the Quilting the Nation piece. The blue in the North represents moving forward and the future, the red in the South represents the deaths that will come and blood that will come with those deaths. The Declaration of Independence is covered and dwarfed by the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal, but the 3/5 Compromise seems to be the reverse of that belief. The Constitution in the background ties the three-fifths compromise back to The Constitution. The five people in the front represent the total population of slaves in the South, the Xs crossing out two of those people tells us about how only three-fifths of the total population of slaves in the South counted in The House of Representatives.
ARTIST STATEMENT
This is a drawing for the Quilting the Nation piece. The blue in the North represents moving forward and the future, the red in the South represents the deaths that will come and blood that will come with those deaths. The Declaration of Independence is covered and dwarfed by the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal, but the 3/5 Compromise seems to be the reverse of that belief. The Constitution in the background ties the three-fifths compromise back to The Constitution. The five people in the front represent the total population of slaves in the South, the Xs crossing out two of those people tells us about how only three-fifths of the total population of slaves in the South counted in The House of Representatives.
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