Amendments was ''the freedom of the slave race. The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery.The Fourteenth Amendment offered a significant bundle of citizenship rights. 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. S4.1Overview of Public Debt Clause. Amdt14. He is for the time being the slave of the state. " This view is not now the law, and may never have been wholly correct. We must look to see if the interest is within the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of liberty and property. By 1890, however, white legislators restored white supremacy through segregation. After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.