Jefferson owed his election victory to the South's inflated number of Electors, which counted slaves under the three-fifths compromise.
Six thousand numbered his warriors only, it did not count the godspeakers and slaves who traveled with the warhost.
Sexagesimal System S used to count slaves, animals, fish, wooden objects, stone objects, containers.
It established the "federal ratio" which counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of both representation in Congress and the direct taxation of states.
(Counting slaves, Virginia's edge increased to 12 to 1.)
The remaining 80 percent lived remarkably well, and at its height, Antioch's population numbered more than 400,000 citizens and freedmen, not counting women, children and slaves.
Do you count slaves?
Normally I would not count slaves, but I think you do.
Shonsu, Nnanji, Katanji, plus Briu and his family... seven, if one did not count slaves.
Most accepted the desire among the slave states to count slaves as part of the population, although their servile status was raised as a major objection against this.
