The compromise which was framed in Article I, Section 2, was that a slave should be counted as three-fifths of a man.
Second, the antislavery elements tried to make their stand at the convention by attacking the slave trade.

However, while many Southern states were opposed to the trade, the issue became entangled in power politics.

South Carolina, which had few slaves, believed that the termination of the slave trade would force up the price of slaves and place her at a severe disadvantage in comparison with Virginia which already had a large slave supply.

It argued that Virginia would be artificially enriched to the disadvantage of the other Southern states.
The states of the North and middle South were again forced to compromise, and, in Article II, Section 9, they agreed that the trade would be permitted to continue for another twenty years.
The third capitulation occurred in Article IV, Section 2, which as the Fugitive Slave Provision.

It stated that a slave who ran away and reached a free state, did not thereby obtain his freedom.