The Three-Fifths Compromise was another very significant compromise during the Constitutional Convention. It had allotted the South to have more representation in the House by counting slaves as 3/5ths of a person.
For most freedmen in the South after the Civil War ended life was unfortunately not much different than it had been before (at least economically) since many of these men were denied social and economic rights, and were tied to the land of farm owners.
