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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By 1860, this had allotted 30 extra congressmen to Southern states, which gave them extra votes to add additional slave states—whether by force, as in the Mexican-American War, or by breaking longstanding agreements to keep the Kansas and Nebraska territories free.
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Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
Biggs was born a free man in the slave state of Maryland and later moved to Gettysburg, where his farm was ruined during the July 1863 battle.
—Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
Across most of the Southeast, a region of former slave states, the more white men are overrepresented, the more Black women are underrepresented.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
But during the Civil War, Maryland was a fractured slave state that very nearly joined the Confederacy.
—Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
Being free and Black in a slave state was likely what spurred the Donnegans to move to Springfield by 1847, their descendants say.
—Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
Lewis, a member of the task force, said those areas extend beyond slavery itself, precluding arguments that California should not be responsible for reparations having not been a slave state.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
California was not a slave state, but more than 4,000 enslaved Black people were taken there between 1850 and 1860, typically by plantation owners, to work in the gold mines.
—Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 13 June 2023
One of the first African Americans to graduate from a previously all-white college or university in a former slave state, Clay was headed for a job at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to create a radiation tracking software system mapping the aftermath of a nuclear explosion.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
Biggs was born a free man in the slave state of Maryland and later moved to Gettysburg, where his farm was ruined during the July 1863 battle.
—Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
Across most of the Southeast, a region of former slave states, the more white men are overrepresented, the more Black women are underrepresented.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
But during the Civil War, Maryland was a fractured slave state that very nearly joined the Confederacy.
—Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
Being free and Black in a slave state was likely what spurred the Donnegans to move to Springfield by 1847, their descendants say.
—Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
Lewis, a member of the task force, said those areas extend beyond slavery itself, precluding arguments that California should not be responsible for reparations having not been a slave state.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
California was not a slave state, but more than 4,000 enslaved Black people were taken there between 1850 and 1860, typically by plantation owners, to work in the gold mines.
—Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 13 June 2023
One of the first African Americans to graduate from a previously all-white college or university in a former slave state, Clay was headed for a job at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to create a radiation tracking software system mapping the aftermath of a nuclear explosion.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
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