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No, they were not. Free-Soilers wanted to stop the spread of slavery, while abolitionists wanted to abolish it alltogether.
They favored no slavery. They wished to "abolish" slavery. Hence the term abolitionists.
he published an antislavery newspaper called the liberator.
Because abolitionists are fighting for abolitionism which is the movement to end slavery. Reformers such as Dorothea Dix were fighting for the insane who were being mistreated. So in a way abolitionists are reformers but they are fighting to end slavery.
Slavery.