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Kentucky. Missouri. Maryland. Delaware.

There was also DC, where slave-trading had been abolished, but slavery still contnued on a small scale until 1862.

Also West Virginia, a new state formed out of the Western counties of Virginia, which seceded from Virginia in 1863, but where slavery also continued.

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