[Non-Sequitur]

Taney never said that Blacks were not humans.

No, but he came awfully darned close to it.

[Aurelius]

Even McPherson, although he suppresses relevant information about the Dred Scott case, acknowledges the well known fact that Taney had no love for the institution of slavery and had freed his own slaves well before the War Between the States. Battle Cry, p. 172.