NOUN
- any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War
How To Use slave state In A Sentence
- Farnsworth is the candidate of his party to-day in the Chicago District, and he made a speech in the last Congress in which he called upon God to palsy his right arm if he ever voted for the admission of another Slave State, whether the people wanted it or not. Third Joint Debate at Jonesboro. Mr. Douglas's Reply
- Oh, no, said he, he [Lincoln] wont enter into the Slave States to disturb the institution of slavery, he is too prudent a man to do such a thing as that; he only means that he will go on to the line between the Free and Slave States, and shoot over at them. Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln
- Union as a Slave State, with the sole reservation, that nothing in the The Great Conspiracy, Volume 1
- By the nineteenth century, Anglo-Americans, even in the slave states, no longer called themselves Creoles because they were no longer colonials.
- Kansas would continue as a territory for a few more years. But there would be no further attempt to make it a slave state.
- Four thousand years ago, Da Yu, the reputed founder of the Xia Dynasty (21st-16th century B. C. ), established a slave state here. It is said that Mt.
- One woman was shot through the face, but that was not worthy of notice, for she was only a _colored woman_; and in that, as in other slave States, the laws give to the white population the liberty to trample under foot the claims of all such persons to justice. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
- He named a new governor, Wilson Shannon. Shannon supported the pro-slavery laws of the legislature. He also said Kansas should become a slave state, like Missouri.
- The slave states, were marked by ‘the unequal distribution of property, the toleration of slavery, the ignorance and poverty of the lower classes,’ and a ‘dissoluteness of manners.’
- Of course I refer to those negroes who have _not merely_ crossed the _limits_ of a Slave State, & thus been caught, but gone some distance North. Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78
