The South had an equal amount of votes in the Senate and extra votes in the House of Representatives, thanks to slave breeding practices giving “3/5ths” a citizen representation in presidential delegates and House seats.
The South had an unfair benefit with its complete emphasis on slavery.
The South had an unfair benefit with its complete emphasis on slavery.
At the time of the Constitutional convention, the vast majority of states were slave states. All states agreed to these rules and if states wanted to throw away the 3/5ths representation that slavery gave them, they had a right to do so.
But why would you call the benefit "unfair" if they all agreed to it?
The debate at the time reveals that had they not agreed to it, there would have been no Union. It might have saved everyone a lot of trouble in the long run for the slave states to remain in their own separate country.