1. free state - Noun
2. Free state - Proper noun
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
Source: WordNetIn 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