Examples of slave state in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This seemed to promise the decline of the Comanche empire and the security of Texas as a burgeoning slave state. — Phil Klay, The New Yorker, 11 June 2022 While floating along the Ohio River between Kentucky, a slave state, and Indiana, a free state, participants will hear the stories of two families seeking to escape enslavement by boat. — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2022 How California became a slave state and stayed that way for decades after the Civil War. — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2021 Dred Scott and his wife Harriet sued for their freedom in Missouri, a slave state, after having lived with their owner, an Army surgeon, in the free Territory of Wisconsin. — CNN, 29 Sep. 2021 In 1833 when Harlan was born, his native Kentucky was part of the south but also the frontier, still a slave state but one increasingly divided on the subject, and home to a small but growing population of free Black people. — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021 Maine was allowed into the union as a free state and was allowed to draft a constitution as a slave state, so long as no other new slave states formed north of Missouri’s southern border. — From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021 The way sociology professor Jacqueline Burnside tells it, even though Kentucky was a slave state at the time, the tiny school in Madison County was designed so that black and white people would work, live and learn side by side. — Sylvia Goodman, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2021 During the Civil War, that meant holding Kentucky — a slave state — in the Union and serving in battle. — Washington Post, 16 July 2021 See More

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