Taney's decision in Dred Scott gave enslaved AND free Negroes all of the rights of barnyard animals. "the effect of Taney's [Dred Scott decision] was to place Negroes of the 1780's - even free Negroes - on the same level, legally, as domestic animals. They possessed no rights that "a white man was bound to respect." That's not very complicated, is it?
Not in the mind of a tendentious ideologue, as you have demonstrated.
However, I was talking about practices, which included slaveowners' allowing their slaves to accumulate and keep savings, and even to use their savings to redeem themselves. Even Frederick Douglass, as he prepared for his exitial interview with his Creator, felt the obligation to revise his earlier remarks about his former owners.
Except that, unlike farm animals, slaves were counted for the purposes of allocating representatives to congress, increasing the power of the southern delegations.