Read the excerpt below from the Supreme Court ruling in the Scott v. Sandford.
[Ujhe legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that
neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free
or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people.
The main subject of the excerpt is
the lack of citizenship for enslaved people
the practice of importing enslaved people from Africa
the practice of relocating from a slave state to a free state
the right of an owner to retain his or her property.