#free_state any state prohibiting slavery prior to the Civil War
exclusion: slave_state
supertype: American_state one of the 50 states of the United States
part of: Union__North the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
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