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• slave states — plural noun Those states of the American Union which maintained domestic slavery before the Civil War, namely Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Slave States — (engl., spr. Slehv Stehts), s. Sklavenstaaten …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

• Slave States — former slave holding states (Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri …   Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games

• Slave Trade Compromise and Fugitive Slave Clause — The Framers debated over the extent to which slavery would be included, permitted, or prohibited in the United States Constitution. In the end, they created a document of compromise that represented the interests of the nation as they knew it and …   Wikipedia

• States' rights — otheruses4|the concept of states rights in U.S. law and politics|the States Rights Democratic Party |DixiecratStates rights refers to the idea, in U.S. politics and constitutional law, that U.S. states possess certain rights and political powers… …   Wikipedia

• slave state — noun any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War • Ant: ↑free state • Hypernyms: ↑American state • Part Holonyms: ↑Confederacy, ↑Confederate States, ↑Confederate States of America, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Slave narrative — The slave narrative is a literary form which grew out of the experience of enslaved Africans in Britain and the its colonies. Some six thousand former slaves from North America (including Canada, the United States and the Caribbean) gave an… …   Wikipedia

• Slave state — A slave state was a U.S. state in which slavery of African Americans was legal. Slavery was one of the causes of the American Civil War and was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1865.tatesThe 15 slave… …   Wikipedia

• slave state — 1. any state, nation, etc., where slavery is legal or officially condoned. 2. Slave States, U.S. Hist. the states that permitted slavery between 1820 and 1860: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,… …   Universalium

• Slave patrol — Slave patrols (called patrollers, pattyrollers or paddy rollers by the slaves) were organized groups of three to six white men who enforced discipline upon black slaves during the antebellum U.S. southern states. They policed the slaves on the… …   Wikipedia

• Slave ship — Slave ships were cargo ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves, especially newly purchased African slaves. The most important routes of the slave ships led from the northern and middle coasts of Africa to South America… …   Wikipedia