slave state

noun

any state, nation, etc., where slavery is legal or officially condoned.
Slave States, U.S. History. the states that permitted slavery between 1820 and 1860: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Slave State

history any of the 15 Southern states in which slavery was legal until the Civil War

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

The Spaniards had made California a slave state, but the gold seekers by vote declared her free.

Kentucky was admitted into the Union as a slave State, without objection, on the 4th of February, 1791.

Our forefathers—yours and mine—voted for the admission of Kentucky as a slave State.

Thus, which ever way they should vote, Kansas would still remain a slave State.

They lived the life of outlaws, and neither slave-state nor free-state officers dared to try to capture them.

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