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

In Democracy in America there's that famous passage, or passages, when Tocqueville crosses the Ohio River, from Ohio into Kentucky, from free soil into slave soil, free state into a slave state.

在托克维尔跨越俄亥俄河,从俄亥俄进入到肯塔基州,从自由之所走向奴役之地的那段游历中,为《美国民主》贡献了数段名言

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

In resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act the state of Wisconsin enacted a Personal Liberty Law that said they were not going to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and turn in fugitive slaves, and the justification was that it was their state's right to do so.

为了抵制逃亡奴隶法,威斯康辛州政府颁布了个人自由法,规定他们不会执行,逃亡奴隶法并交出逃奴,理由是,该怎么做是他们州的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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