To: Huck
Not all blacks were slaves- roughly 5-10% of blacks were free around the time of the Dred Scott decison. Taney claimed that neither slaves nor free men who were the descendants of slaves could be U.S. citizens.
132 posted on
11/27/2004 8:23:19 AM PST by
LWalk18
To: LWalk18; inquest
Taney claimed that neither slaves nor free men who were the descendants of slaves could be U.S. citizens. Well that explains that. Thanks.
135 posted on
11/27/2004 8:30:41 AM PST by
Huck
(The day will come when liberals will complain that chess is too violent .)
To: LWalk18
Six percent of southern blacks, some 250,000, were free in 1860; there were other free blacks in the North. Some impoverished free blacks actually sold themselves into slavery to garner a better life style.
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