SLAVE STATE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Slave state

... convention was called to organize a State government and apply for admission to the Union. The Southern element there wanted to make it a slave State. The Northerners, including both Whigs and Democrats, wanted it free. They did not want to be brought in competition with slave labor in the mines, and have their occupation degraded in that way. Their pride, as well as interest, was at stake, and there was great feeling on the subject. Meetings ...

— The Adventures of a Forty-niner • Daniel Knower

... I ought not to have written you this, because you are for Secession, and in your heart you think Pa a traitor, because he comes from a slave state and has slaves of his own. But I shall not ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill