It is a free STATE that is closed by slavery. You know..... like when there is a free state, there is NO slavery. Therefore, it is like slavery is closed, that is way it is called closed to slavery.
Emancipation. To be set free from slavery is to be emancipated.
If its the end of slavery then all of the states were free
Be free
15 states were black people free from slavery
Kansas was a "free" state, therefore it never had slavery. It entered the Union as a "free" state on January 29, 1861.
They opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories because 'free men on free soil comprise a morally and economically superior system to slavery'
States that permitted slavery were known as slave states. States that did not permit slavery were known as free states.
the free soil party's stance on slavery was the buying and selling of slaves
Of course not. Slavery and freedom cannot coexist. No nation can be anywhere close to "free" as long a slavery is allowed within it's borders. Free citizens of any country that allows slavery are bound to it as surely as if they were in chains themselves.
To stop the spread of slavery
slaves were free from slavery but they had segregation... racism occured so they were free but treated unequally