free soil
/friː sɔɪl/
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- Relating to the historical Free Soil Party in the United States, which opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories.
- The Free Soil movement attracted many abolitionists in the 1840s.
- The Free Soil Party later merged into the Republican Party.
- Free Soil candidates argued that new states should be free from slavery.
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