The issue of slavery at the Constitutional Convention was actually an issue about

At the Constitutional Convention, the debate over enslaved people was closely tied to how states would be represented in Congress. Southern states wanted enslaved people counted toward representation, while other states objected; the Three-Fifths Compromise counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for representation and direct taxation. So the issue was primarily about representation.

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