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How did the California Constitution deal with slavery, and what affect did it have on congress?

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Delegates at the Constitutional Convention eventually reached a compromise to count slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of Congressional representation. To appease Southern slave-holding states, Congress agreed not to ban the importation of slaves until 1808.

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