How did the constitutional convention reach a compromise on the issue of slavery

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Anders Stensaas · Answer 1 · 2017-08-26T12:23:17+0000

The Constitutional Convention reached a compromise on the issue of slavery by declaring that each slave would count as "3/5" of a person when it came to determining representation by population size. This was known as the "3/5th Compromise".

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