[bvw]

Those laws applied to people. Can people be treated like property? The precedent law says "Yes!".

[carton253]

Slaves were not people in the eyes of the law. They were property.

The 13th amendment changed the status of slaves. No longer did the law see them as property but people. The 14th amendment made these people now citizens equal under the law.

The 13th amendment cancelled out the foundation on which the Dred Scott ruling or the Fugitive Slave Law was built.

Citizens cannot suddenly be treated as property. There is no basis in the law for that.