Society of Slaves and Freedmen
The ninth booklet and the corpus’s centerpiece application of the person/man distinction. Beers argues that all legal codes distinguish two types of slaves — (1) chattel property and (2) persons recognized for civil purposes who must direct the fruits of their labor to a master — and that the second type is the operative classification applied to modern American citizens via the federal income tax. Dred Scott v. Sandford, Commonwealth v. Aves, and U.S. v. Amy are cited as authorities; 26 CFR § 1.1-1 is cited as the operative regulatory anchor.
The survey-anchor verification (V04) found that the two-types-of-slaves taxonomy Beers attributes to Dred Scott is not in Taney’s opinion — the taxonomy traces to Roman law and 19th-century treatise writers and is being projected onto the case rather than read out of it. The operative person/man statutory-construction claim is verdicted as foreclosed in the dedicated finding.
Per-treatise triage cycle pending — claims pre-extracted in notes/beers-treatise-09-extraction.md.