The Three-Fifths Compromise concerned representation based on enslaved individuals in the United States. Specifically, it was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that established that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for legislative representation and taxation purposes. This compromise was a way to balance the interests of slaveholding states with those of non-slaveholding states in the context of representation in Congress.
The Three- Fifths Compromise concerned representation based on which of the following groups?
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