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What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

Based on the documents we read in class, what did the authors of the Constitution believe was more important than ending slavery?
What do you think of their choices?

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Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

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