Slave state

Slave state

A slave state was a U.S. state in which slavery of African Americans was legal. Slavery was one of the causes of the American Civil War and was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1865.

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The 15 slave states at the time of the Civil War were Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia (including West Virginia which hadn't separated from Virginia at that time). (The District of Columbia also had slavery prior to the Civil War.) Though not states, slavery was practiced in the Nebraska Territory and in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) as early as the 1850s. The last northern state to abolish slavery was New Jersey in 1804, although the laws of that state retained slaves over a certain age as "apprentices for life" until the 13th Amendment, in 1865.

Eleven of these states declared their secession in 1860 and 1861 to form the Confederate States of America; Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri did not leave the Union. West Virginia joined the Union as a slave state in 1863 after seceding from Virginia.

Original status

Prior to the American Revolution, all of the British North American colonies had slavery, but the Revolutionary War gave impetus to a general antislavery sentiment. The Northwest Territory, now known as the Midwest, was organized under the Northwest Ordinance with a prohibition on slavery in 1787. Massachusetts accepted that its 1780 Constitution effectively abolished slavery, and several other northern statutes required gradual emancipation.

Northern slave states


End of slave states

Maryland and the pro-Union government of Missouri abolished slavery during the Civil War.The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified December 6, 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States, ending the distinction. Ratification of the 13th Amendment was a condition of the return of local rule to those states that had seceded

ee also

* Free state (United States)
* Border states (Civil War)

References

* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106431178 Don E. Fehrenbacher and Ward M. Mcafee; "The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery" (2002)]

External links

* [http://www.slavenorth.com/index.html Slavery in the North]


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