free state

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1. free state - Noun

2. Free state - Proper noun

Meaning

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997

any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War

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In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. Tiberius

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery. William H. Seward

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Thomas Jefferson

The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except its founder. Leopold II of Belgium

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. Buffalo Bill

An omnipresent surveillance state ... makes democratic dissent impossible. Any state that has the ability to inflict full spectrum dominance on its citizens is not a free state. Chris Hedges

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