The term "slave state" refers to a state that legally allowed slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. The antonyms to this phrase, therefore, would be states that did not allow slavery during this time period. The term "free state" is often used to describe states that did not permit slavery, such as Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. These states took a strong stance against the institution of slavery and advocated for the rights of all individuals, regardless of their race or background. The designation of "free state" is a powerful reminder of the ongoing struggle to achieve freedom and equality for all people.

What are the antonyms for Slave state?

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Famous quotes with Slave state

• The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

  Buffalo Bill
• There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

  William H. Seward
• But bear this in mind: if this demand had been acceded to, that meant that every territory in the United States which would become a state—and remember, there were then 33 states and there would be 50 states eventually—but every other state would become a slave state. Because if one slave owner went to North Dakota with his slave, the federal police power would follow him to make sure that he could hold that slave securely in that place.

  Harry V. Jaffa
• Three years later in the contest for Kansas, the administration headed by James Buchanan tried to railroad through a constitution called the Lecompton Constitution, which would have made Kansas a slave state, but on the basis of a phony vote. Douglas stuck to his popular-sovereignty doctrine, which meant that the people of the territory, in a fair vote, would decide for or against slavery. That was the way in which he replaced the Missouri Compromise restriction. It opened slavery, but it said that the decision in each territory would be made by the people in that territory on the basis of their preferences.

  Harry V. Jaffa
• If the slave-power could now in good faith stand where the fathers stood, with the added lights of experience shining upon the question, asking sympathy and co-operation in a system of emancipation, pleading that it was unfair to ask them to make greater sacrifices than other men are willing to make, allowing that it was a common evil, the cost and trouble of whose removal should be cheerfully borne by all, or if the laws of any slave state looked towards the gradual relief of the difficulty, there is not an honest man in the North or the South whose heart would not tremble with joy as he contemplated the destiny of his country.

  George William Curtis

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