Author/Speaker: Rosalynn Shropshire Historian
The Three-Fifths compromise was a compromise between the Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the House of Representatives. (Wikipedia contributors, 2008) The question was whether slaves should be counted as people or property to determine each states financial contribution to the central government.
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