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During the Constitutional Convention, delegates disagreed over
a.whether enslaved people should be freed from plantations in the South.
b.whether enslaved people in the North should be counted as part of the population.
c.how enslaved people’s votes should be counted when electing representatives.
d.how enslaved people should be counted for purposes of state representation.

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The correct answer is D) How enslaved people should be counted for purposes of state representation.
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A third of the Convention's 55 delegates owned slaves, which comprised one-fifth of the population of the States and lived in all regions of the country, although the majority of the slaves lived in the South. The agrarian economy of this region was based in slave labor, and for this reason the delegates from the South refused to accept any proposal that could threaten their means of production. So the answer is B

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