What was the three-fifths compromise and how did it satisfy the states with and without slaves?

The 3/5 compromise was a way for states to determine the number of representatives they had in Congress.  When counting the population of a state each slave counted as 3/5ths of a person thereby allowing slave states to still count their slaves as part of the population, but it kept the number down so they didn't have an overwhelming majority in congress. 

the following best describes postwar era writers in their works:

progressive

many writers,authors,novelists,poets concentrated more on social art and social writing and stayed away from political writings.