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in ohio, however, they would be free, under the domain of state courts and a state government that had no obligation to honor the property claims of an owner in kentucky. the question was how the federal government would square the legal circle of a person who was also property. — PolitiTweet.org

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the conceptual point here is that the legal status of a black person could change from state to state. in kentucky, they might be property, compelled to work under an owner who had legal rights in state and federal courts. — PolitiTweet.org

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antislavery politicians like salmon p. chase would develop the argument that slavery was only protected by “positive law,” meaning slave property only existed where state laws sanctioned it. otherwise, it did not exist and federal courts were not obligated to honor it. — PolitiTweet.org

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