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Which was the central issue the Supreme Court ruled on in the Dred Scott decision of 1857

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The Dred Scott decision was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, African Americans were not citizens of the United States.

That having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom.

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