By the owners whipping them one by one
as 3/5 of a man
was slaves counted as people or property
Slaves should be counted when counting a state’s population to determine representation in congress
counted as 3/4 of person
The courts decided to keep the slaves
When determining representation by population, slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person.
3/5 in each state
As 3/5ths of a person...
Slaves counted as two-thirds of a person.
Every 5 slaves woulde counted as three people
he thought it was fair for the states without slaves
Because slaves were not considered to be of 'equal' value, it was to be agreed upon that they would be counted as 1/2 a person. for example, 2 slaves = 1 person 4 slaves = 2 people 6 slaves = 3 people