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Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were free. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were slave owning states.

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Where there only thirteen colonies when the civil war occurred?

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