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What compromises did delegates from the North and South make on the questions of slave representation and the slave trade? A Allowing escaped enslaved people to remain free B Counting every five enslaved people as three C. Addressing the importation of enslaved people at a later date D Outlawing slavery in the North​

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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.

Allyn Cox: The Constitutional Convention

The Constitutional Convention, oil on canvas mural by Allyn Cox, 1973–74; in the House of Representatives wing of the U.S. Capitol building, depicting (from left) Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin.

Architect of the Capitol