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Free-soil   Listen
adjective
Free-soil  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856. (U.S.)
2.
Pertaining to territory where slavery was prohibited. (U.S.)
Synonyms: slaveless.





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"Free-soil" Quotes from Famous Books



... South. An expediency candidate, acceptable to the South, was found in Franklin Pierce, who had fought in the war with Mexico. Against him the Whigs pitted the commander-in-chief in the war. But Scott was thought to be tainted with free-soil opinions. The Democrats, more thoroughly united, swept the country, and the new administration came into power with a great majority in both ...
— Stephen Arnold Douglas • William Garrott Brown


Words linked to "Free-soil" :   non-slave


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