The three-fifths compromise is one of the most controversial decisions in the history of the United States. What is the three-fifths compromise and what was its purpose?

Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that Three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

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