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it gave slaves citizenship. Previous to the 14th amendment slaves were viewed as property. Such in the dred scott decision which ruled that even though dred scott was a slave whose owener moved him into a non slave state , he was not granted freedom because he was not a US citizen and should not have been able to sue his master in the first place

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The 14th amendment, during the Reconstruction, helped the formal enslaved people by giving them the right to live as the white American with providing equal rights for all, as well as equal citizens rights in America. The 14th amendment made grantee that the freed slaves will have the rights in America. In 1866, Secretary of State William Seward forwarded the Fourteenth Amendment to several states governors for its ratification.