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===The Three-Fifth’s Compromise===
[[File:constitution.jpg|left|thumbnail|400px300px|The United States Constitution ]]
The much discussed and debated three-fifths compromise was a critical one in the context of the Constitutional Convention. While there are those who cite it to show that America at its outset sought to deny the citizenship, and the very humanity of enslaved persons, its actual use was much more complicated than that.