Why Do Slaves Count Towards The Population

Many people thought every slave should count towards the population like the normal people did. One reason was they took care of the land in the south and made food and farmed. A big time reason was they made up for a majority of the population. There weren't as many people as slaves in the southern states. Finally, also the northern states has bigger population so they would have more say in what the government did if the slaves did not count towards the population. There were also many people that did not want slaves to be counted in the population. There weren't that many slaves in the north and it wasn't fair if the south got to count slaves towards the population and the north did not. Also, slaves did not have the proper education to