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To be fair though, the 3/5ths compromise wasn't about black people being 3/5ths of a human. Free states didn't want to count enslaved persons for the population when determining representation in congress while Slave owning states wanted to count each slave as part of the population and thus have a higher representation in congress than they should.
By your argument the slave owning people were wanting to count black people as a human and the anti slavery people didn't. If the free states had gotten their way then black people, by your assessment, wouldn't have been counted as people at all but would have likely caused the emancipation of slaves much much earlier.