Would a slave owner in the south want slaves counted as population for voting purposes

yea i think

Explanation:  A contentious issue at the 1787 Constitutional Convention was whether slaves would be counted as part of the population in determining representation of the states in the Congress or would instead be considered property and, as such, not be considered for purposes of representation.

Slavery was a system of forced labor. To make this system work, slaveholders had to keep slaves firmly under control. Some slaveholders used harsh punishments—beating, whipping, branding, and other forms of torture—to maintain that control. ... Slaves who failed to learn this lesson were sometimes sent to slave-breakers.

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