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In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
Effective abolition of slavery by Mexican or joint US/British authority: California: slavery was abolished by the constitution of Mexico, 1821, followed by statehood as a free state in 1850 without an organized territorial stage; Oregon Country: slavery was not admitted by either US or British authority
Free and Slave States in the period leading to the American Civil War. Free states are blue or teal, slave states are red or purple. Territories are a neutral yellow. (See key for more information) Date: 2007: Source: Based on Image:US_Secession_map_1865.svg with information from en:Image:Freeandslavestates.gif: Author
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For many years after the establishment of the republic, new states were admitted in pairs, so-called free state–slave state twins, so that some states entered the Union with guaranteed "free soil" while their twin permitted the continuation and expansion of America's peculiar institution.
Printable version; Page information; ... United States map of 1861, ... States that permitted slavery, but did not secede .
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1856 map showing slave states (gray), free states (pink), and territories (green) in the United States, with the ...
After Pennsylvania abolished slavery in 1781, the east–west part of this line and the Ohio River became a border between slave and free states, [6] with Delaware [7] retaining slavery until the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865.