rephrase and use only important details of this paragraph Please. By the time of the convention nine-tenths of the slaves in the United States lived in the South like everyone else southerners wanted as many representatives in the house as possible so they argued that slaves should be counted the same as any other people and determining representation delegates from North challenges idea where slaves to be concerned with people with the right to be represented in Congress or were they property blacks are property and they are used to the Southward as Horses and cattle to North Ward aregued eldbridge gerry of Massachusetts most northern delegates agreed that's slaves should be counted only as property that could be taxed like any other property if slaves were to be counted as people in the determining representation in Congress, said Morris and "make them citizens and let them vote"