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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
slavery, it was a way to bring the slave states on board, the South was already more pro British than the North, the fear was without a mechanism to protect slavery they would just peel off and request British Dominion status
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Actually, the Southern states were growing at a faster rate than the Northern states at the time of the Great Compromise. The Southern states advocated for proportional representation, as they anticipated the faster growth rate to continue. They accepted the "three-fifths" calculation of the slave population as part of the Great Compromise.
It was the smaller states like Delaware that were protective of their own interests and insisted on equal representation in order to join the union.