3/5ths was a compromise. The South wanted slaves to be counted as 1 person even though they had no more rights than cattle. If you were going to count slaves as a whole person, you might as well have counted livestock since slaves had pretty much the same legal status.
The South did not want slaves counted out of any sense that slaves were human. They wanted them counted so as to pad the number of Southern members of Congress.
The South did not want slaves counted out of any sense that slaves were human. They wanted them counted so as to pad the number of Southern members of Congress.
The exact truth.