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free-soil

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free-soil (frsoil)
adj.
1. Prohibiting slavery: free-soil states.
2.
a. Opposing the extension of slavery before the U.S. Civil War.
b. Free-Soil Of or being a U.S. political party founded in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories and the admission of slave states into the Union.
Free-Soiler (frsoilr) n.
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Adj.1.free-soil - where slavery was prohibited; "a free-soil state"
non-slave, slaveless
free - not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man"


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As repositories of cutting-edge ideologies that eventually succeed in changing the two big parties, such as the Free-Soil Party and the People's Party (Populists).
TIME SEEMS RIGHT FOR A THIRD PARTY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Historically, third parties have served three main purposes: First, as repositories of cutting-edge ideologies that eventually succeed in influencing and changing the two big parties; such alternative parties include the Free-Soil Party and the People's Party, or Populists.
Party on, America by Doherty, Brian / Reason
Louis suddenly became a "southern city," drawing fire from influential eastern abolitionists who favored free-soil Chicago as a more worthy and hospitable outpost.
Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall ... by Winkle, Kenneth J. / Journal of Social History
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