Who was three fifths of a man?

Answer 1

In the early era of the United States, Southerners regarded slaves as property who should receive no political representation. Southerners also demanded that slaves be counted with whites politically. The "Three-fifths Compromise" allowed a state to count three fifths of each slave person in determining political representation in the House. Not until the South abolished slavery were they allowed to count each slave as one person.

Answer 2

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in the United States, where enslaved individuals were counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation in Congress. This compromise allowed slaveholding states to have more political power while dehumanizing and excluding enslaved individuals.