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Definition of Slave state
1. Noun. Any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War.
Group relationships: Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States Of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South
Antonyms: Free State
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slave State
Literary usage of Slave state
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"Ostensibly the complaint was, that the emigrant from the slave State was not
allowed to carry his slave with him : in reality it was that he ..."
2. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"A slave State the objective point. — Popular sovereignty ignored. — Governor
Walker's resignation. — His letter and testimony concerning the frauds and ..."
3. The Slave Power: Its Character, Career and Probable Designs: Being an by John Elliott Cairnes (1863)
"... State of Missouri, and by the year 1818 had acquired there so firm a footing
as to be enabled to claim for it admission into the Union as a slave state. ..."
4. The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary by Michael W. Cluskey (1857)
"If this may be done hy a master from one slave state, it may bo done by a master
from every other slave state, This right is supposed to be connected with ..."
5. The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, & Probable Designs: Being an Attempt by John Elliott Cairnes (1862)
"... to claim for it admission into the Union as a slave state. The admission of
Missouri to the Union forms for many reasons an epoch in the grand struggle ..."
6. The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, & Probable Designs: Being an Attempt by John Elliott Cairnes (1862)
"... to claim for it admission into the Union as a slave state. The admission of
Missouri to the Union forms for many reasons an epoch in the grand struggle ..."
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