Dred Scott, whose master took him to Indiana and then back to Tennessee.
That raised questions about the status of the slave, and the case reached the Supreme Court, which declared that slavery was protected by the Constitution.
This became the big debate - could individual states vote to keep slavery, or not?
it was a free state >3
Slave state
no it was slave free
Free state.
Slave
Yes it was a slave state
it was a free state
In 1803, Ohio became the first non-slave state out of the northwest territories. Citizens were divided on the subject, but it was an official non-slave state.
Slave
A slave state.
Slave state
was a free state