Amendments was ''the freedom of the slave race. Deconstructing the 14th Amendment.The 13th Amendment, ratified in December 1865, made slavery illegal throughout the United States. Case,1 however, Chief Justice Taney, writing for the Court, ruled that this rule did not apply to freed slaves. Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1, is one of a handful of provisions in the original Constitution related to slavery, though it does not use the word "slave." The conspicuous exception to this was the holding in the Dred Scott case that former slaves, as non-citizens, could not claim the protections of the clause. And it nullified an earlier Supreme Court decision that held descendants of slaves could not be citizens. Men, at that time, both in England and in America, looked upon the slave trade as the life of slavery. Delaware was a slave state on the MasonDixon line. He is for the time being the slave of the state.