slave state
noun
1
: a state of the U.S. in which slavery was legal until the Civil War
2
: a nation subjected to totalitarian rule
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Additionally, no new slave states would be created north of the 36°30′ line of latitude.
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Made By History, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Again, states that stoutly deny human freedom — often former slave states, by the way — are at odds with states that uphold it.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Johnson, now very wealthy and a high-profile public figure, was fiercely advocating to make Kansas a slave state.
—Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
From that point, the next 14 new states came in pairs or alternated in such a fashion that, upon Wisconsin's admission in 1848, there were 15 free states and 15 slave states, which maintained equal representation in the Senate for these two interests.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2025
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Made By History, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Again, states that stoutly deny human freedom — often former slave states, by the way — are at odds with states that uphold it.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Johnson, now very wealthy and a high-profile public figure, was fiercely advocating to make Kansas a slave state.
—Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
From that point, the next 14 new states came in pairs or alternated in such a fashion that, upon Wisconsin's admission in 1848, there were 15 free states and 15 slave states, which maintained equal representation in the Senate for these two interests.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Slave state.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slave%20state. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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