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border states

slave states bordering on the free states before the Civil War: Mo., Ky., Va., Md., & Del.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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