Under the Three-Fifths Compromise, slaveholding states were allowed to count what share of their enslaved population?

1. The dispute was whether enslaved people should be counted when apportioning seats in the House of Representatives. 2. Southern states were adamant that they should be counted, while northern delegates were vehemently opposed, arguing that southern representatives could not represent the interests of the enslaved. 3. The compromise let slaveholding states count all of their free population, including free African Americans, plus sixty per cent, or three-fifths, of their enslaved population. 4. The same sixty per cent was also to apply for federal taxation, although the chapter notes that no such taxes were ever collected. _Source: OpenStax American Government 3e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 "The Constitution and Its Origins", §2.3 The Development of the Constitution_