Usually means: State where slavery was legal.
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  1. slave state: Merriam-Webster
  2. Slave State, slave state: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slave state: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Slave State: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slave state: Vocabulary.com
  6. slave-state, slave-State: Wordnik
  7. slave state: Wiktionary
  8. slave state: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. slave state: Dictionary.com
  10. Slave State, Slave state (United States), Slave state: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. slave state: Rhymezone
  12. slave state: FreeDictionary.org
  13. slave state: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. slave state: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (slave state)

▸ noun:  (US, historical) Prior to the American Civil War, any of the states in which the owning of slaves was legal.

Similar:
slave code, Black Law, slaveholding, slaveownership, states' rights, stateprison, slave, slavery, chattel slavery, nation of laws, more...

Opposite:
free state, non-slave state, abolitionist state

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Similar:
slave code, Black Law, slaveholding, slaveownership, states' rights, stateprison, slave, slavery, chattel slavery, nation of laws, more...

Opposite:
free state, non-slave state, abolitionist state



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