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In late 1849, with President Zachary Taylor calling for the admittance of California and New Mexico as free-states, Quitman and other pro-slavery leaders called for a slave state convention in Nashville.

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There were in the free-states a considerable number of coloured mechanics.

Frederick Douglass 1906

The people of New England and other Northern states understood that the political supremacy of the free-states would be forever lost if the South were able to make slave-ground out of the western territory.

Frederick Douglass 1906

The same spirit that in the slave-holding states accounted it a crime to teach coloured people to read and write, made it very dangerous for any man or woman to do, or attempt to do, the same thing in the free-states.

Frederick Douglass 1906

I had an audience ready made in the free-states, one which the labours of thirty years had prepared for me, and before this audience the freedmen needed an advocate as much as they needed a member in Congress.

Frederick Douglass 1906

She looked to Mr. Douglass as the most eminent representative of the Negro race in the free-states, and before sailing for England, whither she had been invited by the people, who were anxious to show her some honours

Frederick Douglass 1906

The first effect of the law was to create a panic and stampede among the coloured people of the free-states.

Frederick Douglass 1906

That the number of slaves set free by the operation of the system ran up into the thousands, was evident from the vast army of people in all parts of the North engaged in the work, and the constantly increasing coloured population in the free-states and Canada.

Frederick Douglass 1906

Page 144 of an increasing number of free coloured people in the free-states would be an incentive to the more enterprising slaves to run away.

Frederick Douglass 1906

In 1850 there were about 230,000 of them in the slave-states and about 200,000 in the free-states.

Frederick Douglass 1906