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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People from Missouri came from the east, hoping in vain to create another slave state like their own.
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Will Daniel, Fortune, 15 June 2024
Spalding, on the other hand, helped organize the Jackson County Pro-Slavery Pioneer Association to attract Southerners interested in making Kansas a slave state.
—Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
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.
—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
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Will Daniel, Fortune, 15 June 2024
Spalding, on the other hand, helped organize the Jackson County Pro-Slavery Pioneer Association to attract Southerners interested in making Kansas a slave state.
—Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
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.
—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
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“Slave state.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slave%20state. Accessed 1 Jul. 2024.
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