free-soil Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite where slavery was prohibited
    slaveless; non-slave.
    • a free-soil state

WordNet


Free"-soil` adjective
Definitions
  1. Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856. U.S. -- Free"soil`er n. U.S. -- Free"-soil`ism n. U.S.

Webster 1913