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The Supreme Court ruled that a slave was not free if he was taken to a northern state because slaves were property, not people. This effectively overturned the Missouri Compromise, and enraged abolitionists, slaves, and people sympathetic to their cause. It led to the Civil War, and was ultimately overturned by the passage of the 13th amendment in 1865.

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