free-soil
- adjective
- /ˈfriː sɔɪl/
- Archaic
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territorio libre
- Thus, the further alienation of old Whigs (like Lincoln), together with Know Nothings and Free Soil Democrats, would soon engulf the presidential electoral process.
Examples
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Five of the German Republicans whose previous party support is known, including Georg Seidensticker and Charles Dumig, had been Van Buren-Free Soil supporters in 1848.
Academic text (1994) -
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857, in which a slave, Dred Scott, filed a lawsuit claiming that, because he had lived in free soil, he was entitled to his freedom.
Academic text (2004) -
It's free labor, free speech, free soil, free men.
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It runs through, you know, the, the free soil movement, free for free men.
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Did his residence on free soil entitle him to freedom?
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This anti slavery northern coalition of free soil advocates came very close.
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This ongoing, oppressive pattern, by which the federal government acts as a blocking back for predators, is arguably on par with President Franklin Pierce's use of the War Department (then headed by Jefferson Davis) to burn down the homes of free soil settlers in Kansas in the lead-up to the Civil War.
Academic text (2009) -
The movement for free-soil states aimed to keep slavery out of new territories.
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In the debate over slavery, many argued that every person should have the right to live on free-soil.
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The free-soil advocates gathered to promote their ideas against the expansion of slavery.
Synonyms
A place that does not allow slavery
Antonyms
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A southern United States state where the law allowed people to own other people before the American Civil War
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Etymology
The word free-soil comes from the parts free ('not enslaved') and soil ('land'). In the United States before the American Civil War it named land and a political group called the Free Soil Party that wanted that land kept free of slavery, so free-soil means territory where slavery was not allowed.