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free-soil

  (frē'soil')
adj.
  1. Prohibiting slavery: free-soil states.
    1. Opposing the extension of slavery before the U.S. Civil War.
    2. Free-Soil Of or being a U.S. political party founded in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories and the admission of slave states into the Union.
FreeSoiler Free'-Soil'er (frē'soi'lər) n.
 
 
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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: where slavery was prohibited
  Synonym: slaveless

 
 

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