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unusual facts about slave state



Cincinnati in the American Civil War

Antebellum Cincinnati played a large role in the abolitionist movement, partially due to its location as a major city in the free state of Ohio directly across the river from the slave state Kentucky.

Delaware General Assembly

Significant actions of the General Assembly include the calling of the constitutional convention which became the first to ratify the United States Constitution in 1787 (which led to Delaware's state nickname, "the First State"), and its rejection of secession from the Union on January 3, 1861, even though Delaware was a slave state.

Sumner County, Kansas

It was named in honor of Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1811–74), who was a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a free state.

William Ridenbaugh

During the Bleeding Kansas struggles in the late 1850s he was among the Missouri residents who bought land in Kansas (in his case across the Missouri River in Doniphan County, Kansas in an attempt to also vote there with regards to whether Kansas should enter the state as a slave state.


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Archy Lee

Stovall had Lee arrested, but a prominent civil rights attorney, Edwin B. Crocker defended Lee, and in decision on January 26, 1858, Judge Robert Robinson ruled that Lee was a free man because California was a free state and, though Mississippi was a slave state, Stovall had become permanent resident of California, and thus could not own slaves.

Club Moral

Acts that have performed at Club Moral have included Boyd Rice (NON), Michael Moynihan (Coup De Grace), Slave State, Whitehouse, Trevor Brown, Clair Obscur, John Duncan, and many, many more.

Three-Fifths Compromise

Historian Garry Wills has postulated that without the additional slave state votes, Jefferson would have lost the presidential election of 1800.