The Dred Scott decision revealed that all black Americans, whether slave or technically "free," were inferior racialized beings with no rights, and white supremacy was asserted to be part of the law of the land.

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The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in 1857 declared that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court. The Supreme Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories, which effectively made the political status of slavery a national issue and further entrenched the notion of black inferiority and white supremacy in the law.

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