A slave state, which seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861. The western portion of Virginia did not wish to secede from the Union in 1861 and broke away to form its own state on June 20, 1863. West Virgina was part of the Union on June 20, 1863, and thus a free state, and the 35th state.
Gracious sakes, were you asleep for all of 5th grade? Kentucky was a slave state that didn't secede during the Civil War. Such states are called "border states" and include Missouri, Maryland, and even Delaware. West Virginia was taken from Virginia in 1863, but that region had little or no slavery.
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.
North Carolina was a slave State
a slave state
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.
after seceding from Virgina west Virginia became a slave state A2 The above answer is incorrect. The Western part of Virginia left Virginia(during the civil war) to become a free state and is now called West Virginia. The remaining part of Virginia (what we now call Virginia) sided with the confederacy.
The slave state with more free black people than slaves was Virginia. Though there was much debate about whether the state should be considered a slave state or free state due to the number of free slaves.
No. Tennessee was.
West Virginia
Benjamin Banneker. He was a free African American (i think he was a former slave)
Gracious sakes, were you asleep for all of 5th grade? Kentucky was a slave state that didn't secede during the Civil War. Such states are called "border states" and include Missouri, Maryland, and even Delaware. West Virginia was taken from Virginia in 1863, but that region had little or no slavery.
it was a free state >3
Because Virginia was a slave state.
virginia
Slave state
no it was slave free