11. Southerners also anticipated garnering slaves and slave states in Cuba and Central America. 12. Significant actions of the General Assembly include the calling of the slave state . 13. Like many slave states , Missouri had a small free black population. 14. Myers was born as a free black, though Maryland was a slave state . 15. Lincoln, however, did not appear on the ballots of ten southern slave states . 16. But before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. 17. Slaves were not permitted to carry firearms in any of the slave states . 18. Starting in 1777, the Patriots outlawed the importation of slaves state by state. 19. Although Maryland was a slave state , it remained with the Richmond. 20. Missouri, as a slave state , had Southern sympathies, but remained in the Union.
