Give background info on the Dred Scott v Sandford case of 1857

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info on the Dred Scott v Sandford case of 1857
Enslaved African American Dred Scott lived in the free state of Ilinois and in the part of the Louisiana territory that was considered free under the Missouri compromise. When he returned to Missouri, Scott sued his slaveholder for his freedom, arguing that living in free territory made him a free man

-chief justice Taney ruled that African Americans were not citizens

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