president james madisons view on slavery that he arguing that slavery was incompatible with Revolutionary principles even as he owned over 100 slaves on his Virginia plantation, bring enslaved persons to the White House, and in the end sold them for individual benefit.and he also suggest the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted three out of every five slaves for the purposes of taxation and legislative representation. He did not free his slaves in his will. but in constitutional convention of 1787 he argued that the slave trade was “dishonorable to the National character”; he further agrue that slaves should not be taxed because it would be “wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.” Slaves, he reasoned, were “not like but personaly he did'nt like them.
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