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Free state , Free State , or the Free State may refer to:
Places
Free State (province) , a province of South Africa (1994–present)
Free state (polity) , a term used in the official titles of some states, including a list of "free states"
Free state (United States) , a U.S. state in which slavery was illegal before the American Civil War
Maryland , a U.S. state nicknamed the Free State (in abolition and later prohibition contexts)
Kansas , a U.S state nicknamed the Free State (in the context of slavery)
Free State of Galveston , a 20th-century whimsical name for Galveston, Texas, U.S.
Irish Free State (1922–1937), the predecessor of the modern Republic of Ireland
Other uses
Free State (cricket team) , representing Free State, South Africa
Free State Brewing Company , a microbrewery based in Kansas, U.S.
Free State Project , an American libertarian political movement
Freestate Raceway , a former horse racing track in Maryland, U.S.
Free State Review , an American literary journal
Lawrence Free State High School , a high school in Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
University of the Free State , Bloemfontein, South Africa
See also
Topics referred to by the same term