The answer to your question is A.) Taney fails to provide any actual evidence for his statements that African Americans were universally considered inferior.
The correct answer is "Taney fails to provide any actual evidence for his statements that African Americans were universally considered inferior". In a court of law, a party's claim is a counterclaim if one party asserts claims in response to the claims of another. The Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued on March 6, 1857. This declared that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in Federal courts. It was delivered by Chief Justice Roger Taney.
Identity negotiation refers to the processes through which people reach agreements regarding "who is who" in their relationships. Once these agreements are reached, people are expected to remain faithful to the identities they have agreed to assume.