The Court held in 1857 that descendants of enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in a territory. Two amendments answered it.
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The Amistad, Prigg, Dred Scott and Ableman v. Booth: what the Court decided, whom it protected, and how the Fourteenth Amendment answered it.
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