The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

He says Harpers Ferry was a noisy,dirty, polluted industrial city in what was then Virginia, the largest slave state in America.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

He would ask Congress to accept the pro-slavery Kansas constitution and make the territory a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

But there would be no further attempt to make it a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Geary said a few powerful men hoped to make Kansas a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

As a northerner, he did not want another slave state in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

He also said Kansas should become a slave state,like Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Missouri was a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

He said it would be best to let the people themselves decide if New Mexico would be a slave or free state.

VOA: special.2009.03.12