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  • noun any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War

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Examples

  • The Slave State which has increased _most_ rapidly to the square mile of all of them from 1790 to 1860, has had a smaller augmentation per square mile than that Free State which has increased most _slowly_ per square mile during the same time of all the Free States, and the result is the same as to wealth and education also.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • In every Slave State there are laws affording, at least, some nominal protection to these unhappy beings; but, according to this resolution, slaves might be flayed alive in the streets of Washington, and no representative of the people could offer even a resolution for inquiry.

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

  • In every Slave State there are laws affording, at least, some nominal protection to these unhappy beings; but, according to this resolution, slaves might be flayed alive in the streets of Washington, and no representative of the people could offer even a resolution for inquiry.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Missouri, Slave State; the Free States of 1790, with the Slave States of that day; the Free States of 1860, with the Slave States of that date.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • He tells you the Union cannot exist unless the States are all free or all slave; he tells you that he is opposed to making them all slave, and hence he is for making them all free, in order that the Union may exist; and yet he will not say that he will not vote against another Slave State, knowing that the Union must be dissolved if he votes for it.

    Second Joint Debate at Freeport. Mr. Douglas's Speech 1897

  • Farnsworth is the candidate of his party to-day in the Chicago District, and he made a speech in the last Congress in which he called upon God to palsy his right arm if he ever voted for the admission of another Slave State, whether the people wanted it or not.

    Third Joint Debate at Jonesboro. Mr. Douglas's Reply 1897

  • I repeat that I do not believe this Government can endure permanently half slave and half free; yet I do not admit, nor does it at all follow, that the admission of a single Slave State will permanently fix the character and establish this as a universal slave nation.

    Second Joint Debate at Freeport. Mr. Lincoln's Rejoinder 1897

  • Union as a Slave State, with the sole reservation, that nothing in the

    The Great Conspiracy, Volume 1 John Alexander Logan 1856

  • Union as a Slave State, with the sole reservation, that nothing in the

    The Great Conspiracy, Complete John Alexander Logan 1856

  • Of course I refer to those negroes who have _not merely_ crossed the _limits_ of a Slave State, & thus been caught, but gone some distance North.

    Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 1853

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