Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In United States history, a member of the Free-soil party; one who advocated the non-extension of slavery.
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Examples
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He is for no half-measures, -- he avows himself a free-soiler, an emancipationist, an abolitionist, a colonizationist.
The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement George Spring Merriam 1878
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In proof of the charge I was told that I had a brother in New York who was a free-soiler.
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State Stephen Johnson Field 1857
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Pulaski Guards, then under arms for the purpose of quelling any disturbance growing out of this affair, and that he was not a free-soiler or abolitionist, but a hunker whig.
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I do not wish a single free-soiler to vote the Democratic ticket, nor will I willingly afford them the slightest excuse for so doing.
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors William Gannaway Brownlow 1841
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