The Three-Fifths Clause was part of the “Great Compromise.” The Great Compromise was a series of agreements during the Constitutional Convention. The “Three-Fifths Clause” covered the amount of delegates in the House of Representatives awarded for African Americans living in slave states. The slave trade was also protected for another twenty years. Another protection written into these agreements was federal agreement that runaway slaves should be returned to their masters when they are captured. These clauses allowed the U.S. Constitution to progress and settle disagreements between the North and the South about the status of slaves in regards to their representation allotment as well as runaways being returned to masters. The compromise did
