free-soil Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite where slavery was prohibited
slaveless; non-slave.
- a free-soil state
WordNet
Free"-soil` adjective
Definitions
Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856. U.S. --Free"soil`er n. U.S. --Free"-soil`ism n. U.S.
