slave state

1. Slave State Any of the 15 states of the Union in which slavery was legal before the Civil War, including Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

2. A nation under totalitarian rule.

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Slave State

(Historical Terms) history US any of the 15 Southern states in which slavery was legal until the Civil War

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Slave′ State`

any of the 15 Southern states that permitted slavery before the Civil War.

[1800–10, Amer.]

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slave state - any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

free state - any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War

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It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race, should find them; on that separate, but more free and honorable ground, where the State places those who are not with her, but against her -- the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.

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It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race should find them; on that separate but more free and honorable ground, where the State places those who are not with her, but against her--the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.

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Why, public opinion in the slave States IS slavery, is it not?

These cases did not ALL occur, it will be seen, in territory actually belonging to legalised Slave States, though most, and those the very worst among them did, as their counterparts constantly do; but the position of the scenes of action in reference to places immediately at hand, where slavery is the law; and the strong resemblance between that class of outrages and the rest; lead to the just presumption that the character of the parties concerned was formed in slave districts, and brutalised by slave customs.

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The writer has lived, for many years, on the frontier-line of slave states, and has had great opportunities of observation among those who formerly were slaves.

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Our historical matrix includes three variables: Population (population size), Racial Fractionalization, (9) and Slave State (whether or not the state allowed slavery).

Constitutions and Social Trust: An Analysis of the US States

He played an important role in the development of Chester as a river port, and in 1820 was elected to the first of four terms in the state House, where early on he vigorously opposed Illinois becoming a slave state.

Raise a glass to early Chester businessman Thomas Mather Mather

ANY COUNTRY that forced its citizens to spend over 40 per cent of their time working for those in power would be roundly condemned as a slave state and the most appalling tyranny.

Keep your wits about you, it's not easy to navigate this tyrannical political jungle

And Jacob Rees-Mogg, all double-breasted suit and no spine, walks through the lobby of the House of Commons to turn our country into a "slave state" by putting his name to a "dreadful" scam that's "not a proper Brexit".

It was never about Britain or people for the turncoats

When Missouri applied for admission as a slave state in 1820, both Northerners and Southerners saw it as a test of the strength of their position and of whether slavery would be allowed to expand into the American West.

'Compromise' wasn't always a dirty word

This liberal ideology promotes a worldwide slave state in which humanity is helpless, because without truth there is no freedom.

Problem and Answer for America's Slide Downhill

Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a former slave state, successfully orchestrated Kavanaugh's confirmation.