Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia (including West Virginia) and Kentucky had the majority of slaves. But in the colonial days, you could have found some slaves in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Florida with 15,982,378 people ranks 4th
Wst
This term refers to the supreme authority within a state's borders.
Supreme authority within the borders of a state or nation is sovereign authority.
the Borders
South Dakota is a US State and has no states within its borders.
The Southern United States considered it their right to own slaves and wanted the decision of legal slavery to be left up to the individual states. The Northern United States disagreed with this and believed slavery should be outlawed everywhere. As a result, the South decided to attempt succession from the Union, thus setting off the Civil War.
As is the case with the other states, and depending upon the charge and the meeting of certain legal standards, Ohio may choose to pursue extradition anywhere within its borders, and within the borders of any one of the other 49 states within the United States of America.
Supreme authority within the borders of a state or nation is sovereign authority. It comes from the concept that the king, or sovereign, had supreme authority within the kingdom.
there are 23 states that have mountains in them
This is the Lake Michigan.
Authority or sovereignty, I guess.