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Texas, Lousiana, Arkansas, Missouri;

Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia;

Tennessee, Kentucky;

Maryland, Delaware;

The District of Columbia, although not a state, permitted slavery.

Nearly all of the states had slavery as an accepted practice at some point, though most of the northern states had banned it by 1800.

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Before the US Civil War the following States had legalized slavery:

1. Delaware 2. Maryland 3. Kentucky 4. Missouri 5. Texas 6. Louisiana 7.Arkansas

8. Mississippi 9. Alabama 10. Georgia 11. Florida 12. Tennessee

13. South Carolina 14. North Carolina 15.Virginia

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mostly those below the mason-dixie line

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Before the beginning of the civil war which states were slaveholding?

Before the Civil War, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia (West Virginia was not an independent state yet) allowed slavery.


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to bring the southern states to the union


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to bring the southern states to the union


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The end of slavery and states rights, and the beginning of racism and southern poverty


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