During the civil war Virginia divided into two parts. What we now call Virginia wanted to be a slave state and what we now call West Virginia wanted to be a free state.
Free state.
Slave
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Slave state
Mississippi was a slave state until the end of the Civil War.
it was a free state >3
Slave state
no it was slave free
Free state.
No, according to the fugitive slave laws, escaped slaves were not automatically free. The laws required that escaped slaves be returned to their owners, even if they reached a free state. This often led to contentious legal battles and resistance from abolitionists.
Yes it was a slave state
Slave
it was a free state
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In 1803, Ohio became the first non-slave state out of the northwest territories. Citizens were divided on the subject, but it was an official non-slave state.
A slave state.
Slave state