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How was the issue of counting enslaved people in state population counts resolved?
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To settle the question of how slaves were to be counted by the U.S. Census Bureau, whose constitutionally mandated work directly affects congressional representation and taxation, the Three-Fifths Compromise was adopted. Each slave was counted as three fifths of a person.
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