slave state

noun

any state, nation, etc., where slavery is legal or officially condoned.
Slave States, U.S. History. the states that permitted slavery between 1820 and 1860: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Slave State

noun

history any of the 15 Southern states in which slavery was legal until the Civil War

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Word History and Origins

Origin of slave state¹

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

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Example Sentences

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All that counts is our ancient electoral college system, rooted in the Founders’ appeasement of Southern slave states.

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Many of the earliest separatists wanted to transform Southern California into a slave state.

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Rock went on to describe Los Angeles as a “slave state” where there’s an “acceptance that Mexicans are going to take care of white people … that doesn’t exist anywhere else.”

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She was found but refused to come to Virginia—perhaps fearful of being a free black woman in a slave state.

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But the issue was supposedly resolved with the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

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