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Definition of Free-soil
1. Adjective. Where slavery was prohibited. "A free-soil state"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free-soil
Literary usage of Free-soil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"IN the year 1848 there were thousands of Democrats who sympathized, for various
reasons, with the Free Soil movement, though they gave a reluctant support ..."
2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"What the Free Soil Convention would do when it met at Buffalo, ... We will inscribe
on our banner," so ran the last resolution, " free soil, free speech, ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"... Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois lay in close vicinity to the lands concerning
which the fight for "free soil" as against slavery must be fought out. ..."
4. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1875)
"The large vote of the Free-Soil Party of Massachusetts gave encouragement for the
... Mr. Sumner, who had become Chairman of the Free- Soil State Committee, ..."
5. History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard, Charles Austin Beard (1921)
"The results of the election were astounding as compared with the free-soil failure
of the preceding election. Prominent men like Longfellow, ..."
6. Richard Henry Dana: A Biography by Charles Francis Adams (1890)
"FREE SOIL POLITICS. THE extracts from the diary contained in this chapter ...
In New York, the Free Soil party hardly outlived the election in which it ..."
7. Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner by Edward Lillie Pierce, Charles Sumner (1893)
"THE FREE SOIL PARTY.— 1848-1849. ' I "HE invasion of Mexico proceeded with
uninterrupted suc- _L cess, and in less than two years from its beginning ended ..."
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