slaves
it is a Compromise, which stipulates that three/fifths of the slave population would be counted for purposes of representation.
Every slave was counted as three-fifths of a person.
Three-fifths of the slave population of America could be counted as the population of the nation.
How black slaves were to be counted in the population.
The Three-Fifths Compromise
Three-fifths of a state's slave population counted toward representation and taxation.
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the slaves would be counted by THREE FIFTHS.....................................
Slaves were counted by population by three-fifths of a person.
The Three-Fifths Compromise of the Constitutional Convention established that slaves were to be counted as three-fifths of a person when taking a census for apportionment. This was nullified by a later Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary service.
The Three-Fifths Compromise (during the Constitutional Convention in 1787).