There were many states that took part in slavery from 1700 to 1800. These states included Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia.
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If the were slaves, by definition they would not have been free.ANSWER:The states that make up the northern part of the United States were free states. None of the northern states allowed slavery during the American Civil War. That's why so many slaves ran to those states - FREEDOM!
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
The group of people during the Civil War that were opposed to slavery were referred to as abolitionists. One of the most famous abolitionists was Benjamin Franklin, who was a leading member of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, one of the first formal organizations for abolition in the United States.
Because it was one of the Deep South states that were most strongly identified with slavery, and it seceded before the war. It was the decision of the four slave-states of the Upper South to join the Confederacy that actually started the war.
Technically, the southern states wanted the right it was the right to secede (withdraw) from the Union (United States) since the rest of the nation had started imposing laws that many Southerners felt were states rights and issues. When slavery was abolished, many Southerners did not believe that their plantations could continue to function, so they decided that they did not need to belong to the United States, and declared to be separate. While the issue was slavery, it was actually about more than that. It was about the rights of the states to make their own laws and the right of the Federal Government to enforce laws imposed upon the states. The North states were also selling cotton-goods to Southern states at outrageous costs, this angered the South since all cotton originated from Southern states.