There were more than 11 slave states. 11 states seceded from the Union, and they were Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.
The other slave states were Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky. Washington DC, while not a state, was also a slaveholding district.
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Texas, Missouri, Mississippi, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennesse, Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama.
At the beginning of the US Civil War the Confederacy was composed of 11 former Federal States. The Union consisted of 23 States. Some of the Union States were slave States. An example is Delaware, where slavery existed, however, Delaware remained loyal to the United States.
23 in the north and 11 in the south, 34 in all.
There were49,Because one of the states was Free
Seven seceded before Fort Sumter, and four more immediately after it. Total eleven states of the Confederacy.
Depending how you look at it, it is either four (Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland) or five. During the Civil War, territories on the western side of Virginia split from that state to form West Virginia. West Virginia sided with the Union.