free-soil (frēsoil′)
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Tweet 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-Soiler (-soilər) n. |
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