It was, in fact, a concession by the slaveholding south to anti-slavery opinion. One can always debate the merits of compromises, but counting slaves as full citizens for apportionment purposes, when they had no legal rights, would have been much worse.https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1389603810142789632 …
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It was not a concession to mythical anti-slavery delegates from the North. It was a concession to northern voters who would not ratify a constitution that gave too much power to the South, power based on unrepresented enslaved men and women.
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Yes it was. Gouverneur Morris, William Paterson, Elbridge Gerry all criticized representation based on people who were legally treated as property.
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