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What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

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A slave would count as three-fifths of a person when counting population for representation.

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The three-fifths compromise was an agreement, made at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, that allowed Southern states to count a portion of its enslaved population for purposes of taxation and representation.

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3/5 compromise was when they only counted slaves as 3/5 of the population
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