Why did abolitionists want the Dred Scott case to be heard by the courts? A- The case was representing the rights of slave owners.
B-They wanted it to be decided that slaves had no rights.
C- This would bring slavery to the forefront and Congress would be forced to deal with the issue.
D-They liked him and believed he should be free.
E-The case was argued with the intent of testing the laws regarding slaves being taken into free territories.

Which type of evidence would support the author's claim?

The renting agent says i have to rent for at least one year. but i’m not sure how many months i’ll be in town.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?