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Show Mason and Dixon Line Only Divided States. The Mason and Dixon line was (he boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, us surveyed in 17U7. and popularly accepted before lh! Civil war as the dividing line between the free and slave states. If that line were to be extended due west il would divide such northern states as Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and leave Kansas in the south. As matter of fact, the states south of the Mason and Dixon line which are generally regarded as southern slates are Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Ceorgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee. Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas. Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware. Dela-ware. Cumberland, Maryland, Is soulh of the line. The slave-holding states just before the Civil war included all of those mentioned above except Oklahoma, which was not then a state. Slavery had been abolished in the northern states before that lime. |