Question

How did Southern states and Northern states differ in their view of how a state’s population should be counted?

Southern states wanted to count the people they enslaved as part of their population.
Northern states wanted to count only free White people as part of states’ populations.
Southern states wanted to give enslaved people political power so they could be counted.
Northern states wanted to exclude free African Americans from states’ population counts.

Answer 1

Southern delegates argued that their slaves counted in the population, yielding them more Representatives. Northern delegates countered that slaves were property and should not be counted at all. The result was the notorious “Three-Fifths Compromise,” where slaves were counted as three-fifths of a free person.

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