why were southern delegates to the constitutional convention willing to accept the three-fifths compromise

The Southern states wanted to count the entire slave population. This would increase their number of members of Congress. The Northern delegates and others opposed to slavery wanted to count only free persons, including free blacks in the North and South.

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