Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned [assigned] ... according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons [enslaved African Americans].
-U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3
During the Constitutional Convention which group was satisfied with the addition of this clause?
• A. factory owners in the North
B. railroad workers in western territories
C. plantation owners in the South
D.
settlers in the western territories