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"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.
They started drinking vinegar, eating crushed minerals, arsenic, or mercury to try to avoid it. Sitting close to a fire also or in a sewer to drive out the fever, or fumigating the house with herbs to be able to purify the air.