slave-states

South -- a Lynch court in the slave-states -- the scourging of Mr. Dresser by a vigilance committee in the public square of Nashville -- the plundering of the post-office in Charleston, S.C., and the conflagration of part of its contents, &c, &c, I am apprised of no other means of propagating our doctrines than by oral and written discussions.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

The laws of nearly all the slave-states forbid the teaching of the slaves to read.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

England takes from the slave-states of America every year more than one-half their produce; in fact, we are the great patron and substantial sustainer of American slavery.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

In 1870 the school attendance in the old slave-states amounted to nearly eighty per cent. of the enrolment.

Frederick Douglass 1906

Those in the slave-states were either manumitted by their former masters or had by personal enterprise bought their own freedom.

Frederick Douglass 1906

The power of the legislatures of slave-states to prohibit education of slaves by their masters.

Frederick Douglass 1906

In the same year, 1836, the Rhode Island legislature reported on a bill in conformity with the demands of the slave-states.

Frederick Douglass 1906

The people of Missouri and other neighbouring slave-states knew that it would be difficult, with a free-state adjoining them, to hold their bond-servants in security.

Frederick Douglass 1906

His doctrine was that the Federal Government had the right to exclude slavery from the territories of the United States, and that this right and power ought to be exercised to keep slavery within the confines of the then existing slave-states.

Frederick Douglass 1906

The followers of Breckinridge had boldly announced that if they were defeated, they would not submit to the rule of Abraham Lincoln, but would proceed to take the slave-states out of the Union.

Frederick Douglass 1906