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free-soil
free-soil (frē′soil′)adj.1. Prohibiting slavery: free-soil states.2. a. Opposing the extension of slavery before the US Civil War.b. Free-Soil Of or being a US political party founded in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into US territories and the admission of slave states into the Union.
Free′-Soil′er (-soi′lər) n.free′ soil′
n. a U.S. territory in which slavery was forbidden before the Civil War. [1840–50, Amer.] Free′-Soil′
adj. (sometimes l.c.) 1. opposing the extension of slavery into U.S. territories before the Civil War. 2. pertaining to or characteristic of the Free Soil Party. [1840–50, Amer.] Free′-Soil′er, n. Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | free-soil - where slavery was prohibited; "a free-soil state"non-slave, slavelessfree - not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man" |
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