American History X
The Three-fifths compromise?
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The Three-fifths compromise was an agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states during the Constitutional Convention (1787), This agreement ruled that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
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