Case,1 however, Chief Justice Taney, writing for the Court, ruled that this rule did not apply to freed slaves. The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens.The conspicuous exception to this was the holding in the Dred Scott case that former slaves, as non-citizens, could not claim the protections of the clause. Sandford (1857), which had held that Americans descended from African slaves could not be U.S. citizens. This provision would have mooted any possible takings claims against the United States, or a state, as a result of emancipation of slaves. Of course, it didn't mention the word "slavery. Indeed, the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted as one of the devices to wipe out any vestiges of the unequal racial treatment that was slavery. His academic and public scholarship has been published in a number of venues including Slavery and. Abolition, Virginia Magazine of. And this also makes more sense in context.