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Free state (United States)
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Slave and free states
In the
history of the
United States of America
, a
slave state
was a
U.S. state
in which the practice of
slavery
was legal at a particular point of time, and a
free state
was one in which slavery was prohibited or being legally phased out at that point of time. Slavery was a divisive issue and was one of the primary
causes
of the
American Civil War
. The
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States, and the distinction ended.
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