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Horace Mann was an educational reformer who lived in the US in the 19th century. He was a first to advocate a system of a public schools and public education as he believed that everyone had a right to education and that it should be free, democratic and have a professionally trained educators who would provide a quality education.
The main point of this excerpt is that African-Americans were not considered US citizens.
In the Supreme Court case Dred Scott vs. Sandford, Scott is suing for his freedom from slavery. This is because his master brought him to the Wisconsin territory, a territory where slavery was outlawed.
However, the Supreme Court ruled against him. The reason why they ruled against him is based on the excerpt above. The Declaration of Independence did not make it blatantly clear that slaves were considered citizens. Since they were not considered citizens, they had no legal rights that slave owners had to respect.