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How did the ruling on the dred scott case affect the slavery debate?

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Big time cause it ultimately put up a claim that Slavery was technically legal in the whole Nation even if a State had an Anti-Slavery law because it was said that if a Slave fled to a Free State then he was automatically Free
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