the union or the United States of America
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there isn't really a name for them, they are like any state but they have slavery. you could call them southern slave states or slave states, or southern states...... there is no definition for slave states that didnt secede proir to the civil war
When the Confederate States declared themselves an independent contry they withdrew from United States of America, They were no longer 'united'. The union of the states was broken because they were no longer one country. The term for this was secede.
South Carolina seceded from the USA, followed by six others in the following weeks.
The American Civil War started after seven states seceded from the United States because of slavery. President Lincoln also had to put the betterment of the nation ahead of the ability of states to secede
There were four slave states that did not secede from the union, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Slaves in these states were not freed till after the civil war; not even by the Emancipation Proclamation.