[capitan_refugio]

"So my point to capitan and you is that, on the ground "where the rubber meets the road", Dred Scott didn't stand up, but freesoil sentiment carried the day. In fact, you can't point to a single State or territory where Dred Scott caused freesoilers to give way and accept bond slavery on their ground."

The Dred Scott decision (what ever it might have been), was issued in early 1857. The legislature of the New Mexico Territory (comprising the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico), passed slave codes in 1859.

[lentulusgracchus]

The legislature of the New Mexico Territory (comprising the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico), passed slave codes in 1859.

Interesting to know, but I don't think it contradicts my point. Were there any significant numbers of freesoilers in New Mexico, and had they established a freesoil or antislavery ordinance that they abandoned as a consequence of Scott vs. Sanford?