Scott was the brother of another justice . In the end , a 7-2 decision voted that Scott would remain a slave because blacks were not able to have the same rights as whites , and were in fact an ``inferior class of beings who had been subjugated by an inferior race (Dred Scott . The importance of this case was that it laid the foundation for a later reversal with the advent of the 13th amendment to the Constitution . In 1860 , Abraham Lincoln...











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