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SLAVE STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("slave state" is a kind of...):
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Holonyms ("slave state" is a part of...):
Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)
Antonym:
free state (any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War)
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