Update! My entry for round 6 of the Write to Rank competition, The Blood Scott Decision, has been posted. Check it out!
https://www.wattpad.com/564112246-write-to-rank-competition-entries-purple-belt-the
My entry reflects over the Dred Scott decision which was where an enslaved person by the name of Dred Scott tried to sue for his freedom because he was kept by his slaveholder in a state that was banned of slavery. The Chief Justice at that time, Robert Tanney, had declared that Scott had no right of trying to sue for his freedom because he was a slave and was therefore not a citizen. Only property rights could protect slaves and nothing else. Due to this statement the Missouri Compromise, which was a compromise that allowed Congress to outlaw slavery in some territories, was deemed unconstitutional reopening every territory in the USA to slavery.
I still have yet to look at the newly released round 7 lol! @action