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Which supreme court decision created the need for a constitutial amendment that would grant citizenship to formerly enslaved

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13 amendment granted freedom to all slaves

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I would say it would be from the famous Dred Scott v. Sanford which ruled that African-Americans and their decedents could not be citizens of the United states. With this, the 13th amendment was needed
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