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The Three-Fifths Compromise counted "Indians" as 3/5 of a person?
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Under the compromise, every ENSLAVED American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes.
Basically referring to the slaves in the the south so the south could have more representation.
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False. It was slaves. Technically, slaves weren't counted as 3/5 of a person either, it was just that 3 out of every 5 slaves were counted as a part of population in a slaveholding state for congressional representation.

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