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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.

Origin:
1800–10, Americanism

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Slave State

—n
	(US) history any of the 15 Southern states in which slavery was legal until the Civil War

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