Writing for the court in the Dred Scott case, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared that __________and ___ .

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In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared that no black, slave or free, was a citizen of a state or the United States, and that a slave did not become free when taken into a free territory. This ruling effectively denied blacks any claim to citizenship and upheld the property rights of slave owners over their slaves, regardless of the territory's free or slave status.

Writing for the Court in the Dred Scott Case, Chief