The correct answer is D) They are no citizens and they have no right to petition in Court.
<em>What the Court said concerning the status of free blacks living in the United States is that “they are no citizens and they have no right to petition in Court.”
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In the Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sanford of March 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that Scott was not entitled to his freedom. Scott had lived in a state that supported slavery but he was sold to an owner that lived in a non-slavery state. The Court decision was that African Americans were not citizens of the United States.
