Slavery in the 13 colonies

Debate & Diplomacy

Debate is when two different sides are on opposite side of an issue. Slavery was discussed at the constitutional Convention in 1787. The Three Fifths Compromise was the solution to the issue of counting slaves.The North did not want slavery, but the South did.This led to problems in writing the constitution because the South wanted each slave to be counted as a person.The reason the South wanted slavery was because it had plantations and with plantations you need some one to work on them. After all the arguments were done the final result was; that three slaves would be counted as five white men, thats were the name Three Fifths Compromise came from. I consider this a failure because their could've been a more favorable =option instead of slavery.