how did the constitution resolve the issue of whether or not to count enslaved people when determing the representation of states in the house?

The U.S. Constitution resolved the issue of whether or not to count enslaved people for determining state representation in the House through the "Three- fifths Compromise." This compromise, agreed upon in 1787, counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for purposes of apportioning representatives and direct taxes among the states. This gave Southern slaveholding states more power in the House of Representatives than if only free persons were counted, but less than if enslaved people had been counted fully. The clause appears in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution. The Three-fifths Compromise was later superseded by the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, which mandated counting the whole number of persons in each state (excluding non-taxed Native Americans) for representation purposes.