slave states
1slave 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,… …
2Slave States — (engl., spr. Slehv Stehts), s. Sklavenstaaten …
3Slave States — former slave holding states (Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri …
4Slave 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 …
5States' 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… …
6slave 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, ↑ …
7Slave 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… …
8Slave 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… …
9slave 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,… …
10Slave 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… …
