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This was a 1857 Supreme Court decision that a slave, because he was not a citizen, could not sue for his freedom.'

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Dred Scott v Standford.
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The case was called the Dred Scott V. Sandford. The case was decided by the Supreme Court after Scott said he should be freed as he lived in a place where slavery was illegal.

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