During the constitutional convention, delegates disagreed over whether enslaved people should be freed from plantations in the south. whether enslaved people should have representatives at the proceedings. how enslaved people's votes should be counted when electing representatives. how enslaved people should be counted for purposes of state representation.

 How enslaved people should be counted for purposes of state representation.

Explanation:

A compromise over this issue was devised during the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787.  The "Three-Fifths Compromise," as it is known,  resolved the  difference between slave states and non-slave states.

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a way of accounting (somewhat) for the population of slaves in states that permitted slavery.  For taxation and representation purposes, the question was whether slaves should count in the population figures.  (They were not considered voting citizens at that time.)   The Three-Fifths Compromise said that three out of every five slaves could be counted when determining a state's population size for determining how many seats that state would receive in the House of Representatives.

During the Constitutional Convention, delegates disagreed over how enslaved people should be counted for purposes of state representation.

Explanation:

The slaves accounted for about a fifth of the population in the American colonies. Most of them lived in the southern colonies, where slaves made up 40 percent of the population. If slavery was to be allowed and continue under the new constitution it was a matter of conflict between north and south, with several southern states refusing entry into the union if slavery was forbidden. That is why there was no serious discussion about the abolition of slavery.  

The most debatable question related to slavery was the question of whether the slaves would be taken into account as part of the population in the determination of representation in Congress or were considered as property and without the right to representation. Delegates from states with a large population of slaves argued that slaves should be considered persons in the determination of representation, but as property if the new government were to impose taxes on states based on population. Delegates from states where slavery had disappeared or almost disappeared, argued that slaves should be included in taxes, but not in the determination of representation.

Finally, the Three-Fifth Commitment was proposed by delegate James Wilson and adopted by the convention. For this commitment only three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for purposes of enumeration both at the time of distribution of taxes and in the distribution of the members of the House of Representatives of the United States.