The "Border States" were slave states.
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The Union in the American Civil War represented the free states (meaning slave-free states) plus five border slave states in the north of America. The Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) comprised the eleven southern slave states which had seceded from the United States of America.
border states
Missouri's Southern border.
The Mason-Dixon line.
Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.