The Court

Ron Paul is quite wrong. All states as slave states would not have lasted or been productive. People of African heritage took awhile to accept they would never get back home, even in two
or three generations.
People of African heritage did go through Kubler-Ross's five stages; we still go back and forth
through those stages. Sooner or later though, we learned the lay of the land here. We did
learn to read in many instances, despite the fact it wasn't legal to do so.
As it happens , the Supreme Court really could have held to the principles "all men
are created equal" in time enough to save us from the Civil War. But-
They have often been a very bad act on enforcing the Preamble as foundation for our constitution.