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Frasier Balzov

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1. Were freed slaves pro USA?

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2026, 07:43 PM

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How much allegiance could they have felt toward a nation which had held them in bondage?

Yet sweeping them in as citizens was ostensibly the main purpose of the fourteenth amendment.

Or at least sweeping away any doubt about their citizenship as a consequence of the unfortunate Dred Scott decision.

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