<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Three-Fifths Compromise">Three-Fifths Compromise</a>: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" id="mwTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Congress of the Confederation">Congress of the Confederation</a>. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_18#cite_note-3" id="mwUA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUQ">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3">Story, Joseph (1833) <i id="mwBQU"><a href="./Commentaries_on_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States" id="mwBQY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States">Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States</a></i>, <a class="external text" href="https://lonang.com/library/reference/story-commentaries-us-constitution/sto-309/" id="mwBQc" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">§641 (Book 3, Chapter 9)</a></span>