slave state

noun

: a state of the U.S. in which slavery was legal until the Civil War

: a nation subjected to totalitarian rule

Examples of slave state in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Women in slave states had legal rights to property that was half of the wealth in the southern United States at the time. —

Trevon Logan, The Conversation, 10 June 2024 The United States no longer allowed importation of slaves from Africa or elsewhere, but there were no laws against interstate movement of enslaved people from slave states in the Upper South like Maryland and Virginia to Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana in the Deep South. —

Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024 People from Missouri came from the east, hoping in vain to create another slave state like their own. —

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 See all Example Sentences for slave state

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