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Why did the Northern states hate the Three-Fifths Compromise?

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Northern states wanted to count slavery in high numbers because that would put more of a tax burden on the South and less on the North. ... Counting three out of five slaves toward each state's population was agreed to by all states except New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

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