How to Use slave state in a Sentence

slave state

noun

• In 1845, Texas joined the United States as a slave state.
  — Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• The old south, the slave states have a power that must be unleashed.
  — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019
• Missouri was a slave state at the time and was forcing free Black people like Bush to leave.
  — Chron, 24 Feb. 2021
• At the end of the trip, Lincoln’s train would go through Baltimore, Maryland, which at the time was a slave state.
  — Time, 30 Apr. 2020
• There’s no way one woman could cause this much havoc in a slave state and survive.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 3 May 2021
• California entered the union in 1850 as a free state, not a slave state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• Missouri was a slave state that never seceded from the Union.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• The attempt by the Southern slave states to break away in 1861 seemed to offer several ways to strike at slavery.
  — Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
• During the Civil War, that meant holding Kentucky — a slave state — in the Union and serving in battle.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• Dred Scott was an enslaved person who was sold and moved between the slave state of Missouri and the free state of Wisconsin.
  — Joshua Adams, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2020
• By the century’s end, the U.S. Congress had passed a fugitive slave law, and every slave state had a slave patrol.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2021
• And then there was the irony of establishing a colony based on equality in a slave state on land that had been forcibly cleared of natives.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2020
• 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
• If those new states were slave states, pro-slavery jurists from them became candidates for the Supreme Court.
  — Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• With Missouri entering the union as a slave state, Maine could enter as a free state to maintain the balance of slave to free states, Fishman said.
  — Maria Lovato, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
• 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
• How California became a slave state and stayed that way for decades after the Civil War.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2021
• The House, dominated by free states, wanted Missouri to be free; the Senate, split between free and slave states, balked.
  — Richard Brookhiser, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• The man relayed her message to sympathetic white lawyers in Kentucky, a slave state, who filed a suit on her behalf.
  — Eric Herschthal, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2019
• Per Lehman, a few state lawmakers had even proposed a bill in the 1860s to make Minnesota a slave state — it was voted down — to entice tourists who owned slaves.
  — Myron Medcalf, Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• The Missouri Compromise of 1820, that allowed the state to enter the union as a slave state, left Missouri divided on slavery.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• Southerners wanted to take it over in order to gain another slave state.
  — David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
• As a part of the Missouri Compromise, Maine joined the union as a free state, while Missouri entered it as a slave state, maintaining the balance between free and slave states in the nation.
  — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2020
• Those fears were pronounced in 19th century Maryland, a slave state with the country’s largest free Black population.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 1 July 2021
• Problem solved with a little boundary redrawing, sending them all back to Maryland’s arms, a former slave state.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• But during the Civil War, Maryland was a fractured slave state that very nearly joined the Confederacy.
  — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• Settlers poured into Kansas, many of them pro-slavery from neighboring Missouri, a slave state.
  — Steve Grant, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Most historians now agree that the slave states seceded to protect slavery.
  — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
• The constitutional crisis over slavery erupted in 1819, when Missouri sought admission to the Union as a slave state.
  — Timothy Sandefur, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024