e American Constitution listed slaves as 3/5ths of a human.
Article I, Section 2, Paragraph 3:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Your statement is not correct. The Constitution apportioned representation according to citizenship. Delegates from thhe states in which slaveholding was widespread wanted to count slaves as citizens, and apportion representatives in Congress according to their number. Delegates from the states in which slaveholding was not widspread wanted to restrict citizenship to "free" persons and apportion representatives according to this smaller census. It was, in reality, a power struggle over numbers of representatives in Congress. "Three Fifths" was a compromise, nothing more. Note that "Indians not taxed" were not considered citizens, and were not counted at all for the purpose of congressional representation.
The facts you have stated are correct. I believe you are wrong in saying my “statement is NOT correct. At that time we had “free” persons who were citizens, Indians not taxed, and other free persons who were not citizens. So far as I know the only legal slaves we had were the ones that were considered as 3/5ths. Were there other slaves I don’t know about that were not counted as 3/5ths?
The facts you have stated are correct. I was not able to put my hands on my copy of the Constitution when I was writing my comment. I am well aware of the compromise nature of the 3/5ths inclusion. I believe you are wrong in saying my “statement is NOT correct.” At that time we had “free” persons who were citizens, Indians not taxed, and other free persons who were not citizens. There were also free Persons bound to Service for a Term of Years, also known as Indentured Servants. So far as I know the only legal slaves we had were the ones that were considered as 3/5ths. Were any other categories that were not slaves and not free persons? Were there other slaves I don’t know about that were not counted as 3/5ths?