Which evidence best supports Curtis’s opinion that Dred Scott should be free because he lived in a free territory? Check all that apply.
Answer
A
“The Constitution refers to slaves as ‘persons held to service in one State’”
B
“The Convention which framed the Constitution . . . has . . . the power to regulate commerce.”
C
“A citizen of the United States owns slaves in Cuba.”
D
“Does this legislation deprive him of his property without due process of law?”
E
“Acts of Congress as prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude within that part of the Territory of Wisconsin . . . were constitutional and valid laws.”