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…showed last 75 words of 633 total…be counted as part of population for direct taxation, which would decrease the southern tax burden. The northern states, in which slavery was fast dying out, supported the opposite positions. The issue was settled by the Three-Fifths Compromise: five slaves were to be counted as three free persons for both representation and direct taxation. By another compromise on slavery, Congress was forbidden for 20 years (until 1808) to interfere with the importation of slaves into the country.