What was the The Slaughter-House Cases (14 Apr 1873)

Slaughterhouse Cases, in American history, legal dispute that resulted in a landmark U. S. Supreme Court decision in 1873 limiting the protection of the privileges and immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution ... By a five-to-four majority, the Court ruled against the other slaughterhouses.

The Fourteenth Amendment immunity clause only protects the legal rights that are associated with federal citizenship not those pertaining to state citizenship.

Explanation: The Slaughterhouse cases were part of a larger set of decisions that undermined the protections of the Reconstruction Era for African Americans