slave state in English

noun
1
any of the southern states of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War.
‘We are in favor of making Kansas a ‘ Slave State ’ if it should require half of the citizens of Missouri, musket in hand, to emigrate there,’ declared the Liberty Democratic Platform.

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1. An effort was initiated to organize Kansas for admission as a slave state, paired with Minnesota, but the admission of Kansas as a slave state was blocked because of questions over the legitimacy of its slave state constitution.

2. 7 Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.

3. He later moved to the slave state of South Carolina to take a job as a printing compositor at the state printing office.

4. Enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state