what states allowed slavery in 1851?

Question

and show me a map of all

Answer 1

Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware

If you don't know where they are, that's your problem.

Answer 2

Here's a map from 1856 (though the "slave states" were no different at that point than in 1851).
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/03/0320001r.jpg

Matt already gave you the list.

(He also, very conveniently, listed LAST the four border states that never seceded from the Union. In case you need to know, the seven "Deep South" states" seceded before Lincoln's inauguration, then four others after Fort Sumter, viz., Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Arkansas)


BTW, the answer "all of them" is mistaken on two counts

1) The answer is based on the results of the Dred Scott decision, but that case was not even in the courts yet in 1851, and was not resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court until 1857.

2) Dred Scott did NOT force all states to accept slavery within their own borders, though Republicans feared that would be the next step.

(In fact, contra much pooh-poohing, these fears were well-founded. There was a case before the Supreme Court at the time of the South's secession and outbreak of the Civil War that appears to have been headed in just that direction. The first chapter of Chandra Manning, *What this Cruel War was Over : Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War* (2007) footnotes the case.)

Answer 3

They all did. That was the decision in Dred Scot. When Scot escaped, the Supreme Court ruled that no matter where he went, he was still the property of his owner. If a slave escaped to Illinois, Wisconsin, or the Territories, he could be found and legally taken by force, restrained, and returned to his owner in a "slave" state.

So, actually, all the states and territories allowed the practice of slavery.

Answer 4

why wat u wanna bring it back?