It stated that five enslaved persons would count as three free persons
The Northern States were pleased by Three-Fifths Compromise.
allowed the slave states to count a slave as three-fifths of a person
Slave states.
The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal, but the Three Fifths Compromise implies that they are not.
The Northern and Southern states, and the slaves
Southern States. (NovaNet)
The Three-Fifths Compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution
Three-Fifths Compromise, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Emancipation Proclamation
allowed the slave states to count a slave as three-fifths of a person
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise over how slaves would be accounted for when determining population for congressional representation purposes. The conflict was between the Northern and Southern states.
The Perpouse of the three-fifths compromise was to make the population fare
The three-fifths compromise gave the southern states an advantage by giving them a higher population with three-fifths of slaves counted. This in return gave the south more delegates in the House if Representatives which gave them political control