The founders' disagreements on this issue, based on their economic backgrounds and coming from states with different economies, influenced the creation of the Three-Fifths Compromise fifths which dealt with how to count slaves in the population. According to “The Slavery Compromises,” the economies of Southern states, such as South Carolina, depended on the labor of slaves working on their large plantations (University of Louisiana Lafayette 2016). Since Southern states that relied on slavery naturally owned more slaves, many founders of these states wanted slaves to be counted like any other white people in order to get more representatives and more votes in Congress. On the other hand, the economies of the Northern states did not rely heavily on slavery, and many of them did. The states are “free” states that restrict slavery (University of Louisiana Lafayette 2016). Many of these Northern delegates, like Elbridge Gerry, countered that "blacks are property" and should be considered property that could be taxed, but not people when taxed. do not have the rights of citizens (Hart et al. 111), we can infer that the Northern delegates feared that the South would get more votes, more representation due to the greater number of slaves, and they found it ironic how the South