Amendments was ''the freedom of the slave race. It is generally agreed that African slaves first arrived in Massachusetts in the 1630's, and slavery was legally sanctioned in 1641.The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery. The Fourteenth Amendment offered a significant bundle of citizenship rights. Scott, a slave, argued that he was free because his owner had taken him to territory where slavery was banned. 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. 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." 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." Ferguson adopted a principle first propounded in litigation attacking racial segregation in the schools of Boston, Massachusetts. Do their views correspond to the number of slaves in the state they come from?