The cheap-labor conservatives:
1. Supported George III in the American Revolution. Fully a third of the population of the colonies didn’t even want independence.
2. Supported protection for the institution of slavery in the Constitutional convention. This included the bizarre insistence that slaves be counted in determining slave state representation in Congress. Slaves were people according to conservative planters, but only for purposes of counting them. Those same interests also prevented regulation of the importation of slaves prior to 1808.
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