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Famous Abolitionist Medallion
===Representation===
===Representation===
The impact before the Civil War of representation has three potential outcomes: that being only count free citizens; fully count everybody, including slaves; or count by the 3/5ths rule. As historian Garry Wills has noted, in 1793 the total representation of the states was 105 members.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YZRPxR4hBdoC&pg=PA6 ''Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power''], Garry Wills</ref> The following table illustrates the three possible paths that could have been taken:
The impact before the Civil War of representation has three potential outcomes: that being only count free citizens; fully count everybody, including slaves; or count by the 3/5ths rule. As historian Garry Wills has noted, in 1793 the total representation of the states was 105 members.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YZRPxR4hBdoC&pg=PA6 ''Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power''], Garry Wills</ref> The following table illustrates the three possible paths that could have been taken:
[[Image:Official medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society (1795).jpg|right|thumb|250px|Am I Not A Man And A Brother?]]
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