Division of U.S. states in which slavery was either legal or illegal.
Any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War.
1 In 1812 Louisiana, a slave state , came in to make the eighteenth addition.
2 The slave state of Missouri was only just across the river.
3 Yes, 'um, Kentucky was a regular slave state - - agenuineslave state.
4 The District of Columbia is situated in a slave state .
5 Thereupon the proslavery men formed a constitution (Lecompton) for a slave state .
6 Texas joined the United States and became a slave state .
7 But the slave holders were just as determined to make Kansas a slave state .
8 What is true in a slave state will be as true everywhere in the land.
9 Tennessee, therefore, entered the Union (in 1796) as a slave state .
10 Though born in a slave state , he had an earnest and growing repugnance to slavery.
11 They went to vote, and with the avowed design to make Kansas a slave state .
12 No, sir, I never was a slave , nor was I ever in a slave state .
13 They had not made Kansas a slave state , but they had seen a Yankee trick.
14 The plans for converting California into a slave state were frustrated by the discovery of gold.
15 Burrow said: Qatar is a slave state for 1.4 million migrant workers.
16 The Missouri Compromise provided that Missouri should be a slave state ; this was to satisfy the South.
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