I don't know how intelligent you are, and I don't know if you grasp the concept of "objectivity" or adherence to the law.
I'm not in favor of slavery, but I am very much in favor of applying the law correctly. Slavery is immoral and never should have been legal, but the fact is, it *WAS* legal, and it is wishful thinking to pretend it wasn't.
Being *LEGAL*, you have to accept what was the law of that time period, and though you may hate slavery, You need to hate even more government officials ignoring the law or pretending it says something else.
Activist Judges has been a bane on this nation's existence. They gave us Abortion on demand, homosexual "marriage", banned prayer in schools, re-wrote the requirements for the Presidency, created "Anchor Babies", decided a man could not feed his own animals with wheat he grew on his own land, and created hundreds of wrong-headed decisions that take away the rights of people.
I oppose abortion, but in any discussion regarding the *LEGALITY* of it, I'm going to argue what the law says, not what I wish it said.
In 1780 Massachusetts, slaves were "property", and the court just took away "property" because they didn't agree with the idea that slavery was legal, and they knew better what the law *SHOULD* be, than everyone else.
They imposed *THEIR* views on their state, and those views were incorrect, and factually wrong.
This is tyranny, and as bad as slavery is, tyranny is worse, because it imposes a slave like condition on free men.
There's where you are wrong. They followed the law which was their new Constitution and determined that it did not allow one man to own another. It’s that simple.
You just either don't like that they followed the law or you are conflating 18th century judges with our 21st century progressive activist judges who don’t give two s**** what the law actually says.