free-soil

ADJECTIVE
  1. where slavery was prohibited
    a free-soil state
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How To Use free-soil In A Sentence

  • a free-soil state
  • He is for no half-measures, -- he avows himself a free-soiler, an emancipationist, an abolitionist, a colonizationist. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
  • Elizur Wright purchased a Whig paper, and seeing a statement in it concerning the Free-soil candidate which he believed from internal evidence to be untrue, he said quite loud: "Well! this is the finest roorback I have met with. Cambridge Sketches
  • The Republican Party -- although it was populistic on slavery, it was a free-soil party in its origin, which, of course, is very populist in a lot of its implications. Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality
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