"B. whether slaves were citizens or property" is the correct answer. In this landmark case, the US Supreme Court decided that blacks were not citizens and therefore had no standing in court.
In the 1850s abolition was not a widely embraced movement in the United States. It was considered radical, extreme, and dangerous. In “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass sought not only to convince people of the wrongfulness of slavery but also to make abolition more acceptable to Northern whites.
I say it’s A! I wonder if that helps
The top class was reserved for "Peninsulares" - people born in Spain (or in the Iberian Peninsula). The second was their children- it was based upon the ancestry and place of birth
