Concerning the issue of how a state's slave population was to be counted,the convention's delegates settled on the

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The convention's delegates settled on the three-fifths clause, which counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of calculating a state's population. This compromise was reached between Southern states, who wanted enslaved people to count fully towards representation in Congress, and Northern states, who argued that counting enslaved people as full persons would give Southern states too much power in Congress. The three-fifths compromise was written into the United States Constitution in Article I, Section 2.

Concerning the Issue of How a State's Slave Population Was