LAMB: What was Illinois as a state -- slave, non-slave?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Douglas Debates] Reference
Can't she pick on some non-slave Viking dude with mighty thews for this errand?. From Wordnik.com. [HH Com 143] Reference
It criminalized not only slaves who'd escaped to non-slave states, but also anyone who helped them flee. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Loeb: The Fugitive Girl Act] Reference
I'm the only non-slave in my flat, so I'm the only one who gets to vote and also the only one who can be voted out. From Wordnik.com. [gillpolack: Today my mind is in a strange place. I] Reference
That the prosperous employer should assist the beginner was a natural corollary, for Lincoln, of his understanding of non-slave labor. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: Parable of the Poor and Rich Plumber] Reference
Slavery, 300 years ago, was something that large segments of the non-slave populations either practiced, advocated or tacitly supported. From Wordnik.com. [Beating up your teenage daughter isn’t just a good idea. It’s the law.] Reference
On the map, the division line between slave and non-slave societies occurs in Virginia, broadly anticipating the Mason-Dixon line that later split slave states from free. From Wordnik.com. [1491: excerpts part 3] Reference
Previous to 1870 other free States were likely to be admitted into the Union; and thus by successive and unavoidable events, the government was sure to pass into the hands of the non-slave States. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It is interesting that Obama, who comes from a non-slave background has chosen to become associated with the racism of Wright and Meeks and even uses racist stereotypes such as 'typical White person.'. From Wordnik.com. [Senior Obama Adviser Asked Top Public Relations Firm To Help Wright's Church] Reference
The numbers amazed me - I certainly had not thought that the percentage of enslaved human beings basically exceeded one half of Virginia's population (when you exclude the essentially non-slave owning counties which became West Virginia). From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: How Many of Today's South Carolinians Have Slaveowners In Their Family Tree?] Reference
Also, apart from what Kevin points out, slavery was a HUGE issue to the South, even before the war — they never wanted to allow the non-slave states to have an advantage in the Senate, because they knew this would result in an end to slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Day, A Day Late « Lean Left] Reference
Page 6 between the people of the slave and non-slave holding States. From Wordnik.com. [Senate journal of the second extra session of the thirty-third General Assembly of the state of Tennessee : which convened at Nashville on Thursday, the 25th day of April, A. D. 1861,] Reference
If you broke the bone of a "free man" (non-slave), then the punishment was to break one of your bones. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Galveston was a growing city; forty percent of her non-slave population was born outside the United States. From Wordnik.com. [EagleSpeak] Reference
By the admission of California to the Union as a free state the non-slave states were greatly strengthened. From Wordnik.com. [This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States] Reference
This was about to work a considerable disturbance in placing a distinction between the slave and non-slave holder. From Wordnik.com. [The Institution of Slavery in the Southern States, Religiously and Morally Considered in Connection with Our Sectional Troubles, by Bryan Tyson, of North Carolina] Reference
In 1854, Wisconsin also sought to nullify the federal Fugitive Slave Act that forced non-slave states to return escapees. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
As an expert, would you agree that many in the south were non-slave owners while some in the north were not even abolitionists?. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
The branch of his family thus transplanted into America, were all held in slavery till 1822, when they escaped to the non-slave holding States. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.] Reference
Slave-owners mingled with non-slave owners upon terms of mutual regard and respect, unaffected, apparently at least, by any consideration of the subject of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [The end of an era,] Reference
That we may the better realize their relative strength, I have given the population of each State, and have separated the slaveholding from the non-slave holding States. From Wordnik.com. [Facts and suggestions on the subjects of currency and direct trade, addressed to the Chamber of Commerce of Macon, Ga.] Reference
Now you can't buy a chocolate bar - 76\% cacao - that doesn't scream the "authenticity" of its having been produced by a tribal-owned (and non-slave) cooperative in Ecuador that uses. From Wordnik.com. [Bigger Than Your Head] Reference
Younger sons of slaveholders, taking a few slaves with them, or non-slave holders, made their way into that region where fertile lands might be had at nominal prices, and developed larger plantations than they had left. From Wordnik.com. [From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina] Reference
Another matter, which gave the Conference considerable trouble, was the action of the Delaware authorities, preventing our ministers from the non-slave holding States from going into the State of Delaware to take charge of churches. From Wordnik.com. [Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History] Reference
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware, all slave states, sided with the North, with the result being that in every single battle of the civil war, slave owners fought for the North against non-slave owners fighting for the South. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
Politically motivated attempts to take away the constitutional rights of abolitionists before the Civil War were largely defeated in non-slave states, and the previous red scares against working-class organizations were relatively mild. From Wordnik.com. [Political Affairs Magazine] Reference
My understanding is that they felt that the practice of slavery was necessary to support their way of life, and free states (non-slave holding) were interfering with the practice of slavery, and the federal government was not doing anything to prevent it. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana; they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slave holding or the non-slave holding States. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference
He said to the slaveholders "Do you aspire to become the victims of white non-slave holding vengeance by day, and of the barbarous massacre of the negroes by night?. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina] Reference
I actually favor the preferences of the 18th century non-slave owners, who according to the references I’ve been able to find formed a majority at the Constitutional convention. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Alito] Reference
You are their common agents; it is your duty while they are in the Territorial state to remove all impediments to their free enjoyment by both sections -- the slave holder and the non-slave holder! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Man in Gray] Reference
There is no doubt that Lincoln truely believed slavery to be immoral-but he was fine with it’s continued existance as long as future states would be non-slave, giving the balance of power in the Senate to his party. From Wordnik.com. [Today’s History Lesson: Lincoln’s Disagreement with Obamaism - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState] Reference
If someone was against slavery before the Civil War, the fact that they could migrate to non-slave holding states was an advantage in some sense that one who had strong feelings about slavery at least wouldn’t have to see it practiced on a day to day basis. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Health Care and Federalism] Reference
OK, moron; the non-slave States. From Wordnik.com. [Say Anything] Reference
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