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Virginia was a Confederate state. The Union slave states were Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky. In June 1863 West Virginia became the fifth Union slave state.
The eleven "Southern" states that seceded from the Union were all "slave" states. The slave holding states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware were termed to be "border" states and geographically, none of them can be describes as "Southern" states, especially Delaware.
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, all of which were part of the Confederacy. The following slave States stayed in the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri.
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Virginia was a Confederate state. The Union slave states were Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky. In June 1863 West Virginia became the fifth Union slave state.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware
The slave states remaining in the Union were mainly border states. The "border states" economy wasn't as dependant on slavery as were their southern cousins. One Southern congressman even stayed in congress during the war. Vice President Andrew Johnson was also a strong supporter of the South and paid for it after he became president.
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware.
Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky
Most slave states left the union. The "border" states that practiced slavery, but stayed in the union, probably realized it would be too difficult to fight off the North.
It upset the balance of slave & free states,
The slave-owning southern states.
The Confederates were the Southern slave-states that had seceded from the USA. The Union (North) was what was left.
The eleven "Southern" states that seceded from the Union were all "slave" states. The slave holding states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware were termed to be "border" states and geographically, none of them can be describes as "Southern" states, especially Delaware.
Do you mean the five slave-states that stayed in the Union? There were origially four - Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. A fifth was the newly-created state of West Virginia, which broke away from the Confederate state of Virginia in 1863.
That could be Kentucky or Missouri, which both had three borders with free-soil states. But they had also stayed in the Union, as 'buffer states' that had voted against joining he Confederacy.