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单词 free soil
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free soiln.adj.

Brit. /ˌfriː ˈsɔɪl/, U.S. /ˌfri ˈsɔɪl/
Forms: also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: free adj., soil n.1
Etymology: < free adj. + soil n.1
U.S. Politics. Now historical.
A. n.
Territory in which slaveholding is prohibited; an example of this. Chiefly with reference to the views and activities of the Free Soil party (see sense B.).
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in U.S.A. > where slaveholding was banned
free soil1844
1844 Subterranean & Working Man's Advocate 23 Nov. 3/3 Mr. [Thomas] Devyr..dwelt upon the rapid progress which the question of a Free Soil had made within the last twelve months.
1847 P. Goodwin in Harbinger 13 Nov. 12 (headline) Free trade, free soil, free labor, and free speech.
1886 J. A. Logan Great Conspiracy 43 At once commenced that long and terrible struggle between the friends of Free-Soil and the friends of Slavery, for the possession of Kansas.
1903 A. T. Hadley Freedom & Responsibility 20 The republican party from 1856 to 1870 was dominated by men who cared more for free soil and for the Union than they did for their own positions of authority.
1948 Pacific Spectator Spring 151 They had translated their moral repudiation of slavery into the doctrine of ‘free soil’.
1993 R. L. Gale Cultural Encycl. 1850s in Amer. 2 The main planks of their campaign platform were advocacy of free soil and support of free labor in opposition to encroachment by the slave-powered South.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of or relating to (advocacy of) the prohibition of slavery. Esp. in the name of or with reference to the Free Soil Party (active 1848–54), which campaigned on the platform that slavery should not be permitted in United States territory.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [adjective] > other parties
republican1785
federalist1795
republican1800
National Republican1831
Native American1835
free soil1845
know-nothing1853
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > relating to manumission > relating to anti-slavery agitator or group
free soil1845
Garrisonian1863
1845 Young Amer. 26 Apr. 2/2 Unless our pious neighbor-in-law can give us evidence of the truth of his assertion, we must inevitably conclude that he has foully libelled the Free Soil Farmers.
1846 Young Amer. 28 Feb. 1/1 Mr. Ryckman has set out on a lecturing tour on the Free Soil Question... We are unitedly for the Free Soil Movement.
1848 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Aug. 102 The newly combined Van Buren ‘free soil’ party.
1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 69 Mr. Clay was speaking of the antislavery agitators and of the Free-soil party.
1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 146 Beverly was..an ardent student of free-soil doctrines.
1934 B. Russell Freedom & Organization 1814–1914 371 In a long letter..he [sc. Carnegie] explains that he is a free-soil Democrat.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Mag.) 12/1 In 1845, John P. Hale bolted the Democratic party to campaign under the Free-Soil banner.
2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Oct. 48/1 He..had become in time an espouser of the Free Soil doctrine, which opposed the extension of slavery into the territories.

Derivatives

ˌfree-ˈsoiler n. (a) a person who believes in or advocates the prohibition of slavery; (b) a person who lives on free soil, a free person (obsolete rare).
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > freeman or not slave
freeeOE
freemanOE
franklin1377
free-soiler1848
society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > other parties > members or adherents of
liberty man1705
monocrat1792
federal1796
National Republican1828
rummy1840
Native American1844
free-soiler1848
know-nothing1853
soft1853
tea partier2009
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > abolition of slavery > one who
abolitionist1791
saint1830
immediatist1835
free-soiler1848
woolly-head1859
1848 Ohio Repository 11 Oct. In a speech to the Free Soilers, last evening, Mr. Russell,..a leading Whig member of the last legislature, said that [etc.].
1849 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) II. 162 Palfrey, Adams, Sumner..all and several Free-soilers.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lv. 355 The Abolitionists and Free Soilers..had for some time previously acted as a group by themselves.
1898 N.E.D. at Free soil sb. and a. Free-soiler,..one who lives on free soil, a free man.
1927 S. V. Benét John Brown's Body 116 Pop hadn't wanted to join with the Free-Soilers.
1992 I. Berlin et al. Free at Last 21 Late in 1861, General John W. Phelps, a Vermont free-soiler, took command of Ship Island.
ˌfree-ˈsoilism n. (advocacy of) the principles of the Free Soil Party; (sometimes more generally) opposition to slavery.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > other parties > principles or policies of
Native Americanism1844
free-soilism1848
know-nothingism1854
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > abolition of slavery > principles of
abolitionism1807
immediatism1835
free-soilism1848
man-and-brotherism1865
1848 Ohio Repository 13 Sept. (headline) Free Soil-ism.
1849 Congress. Globe 13 Dec. 24/2 We do not charge him with Abolitionism or Free-Soilism, but with duplicity.
1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 73 Tainted with Free-soilism or Abolitionism.
1941 ‘H. Buckmaster’ Let my People Go 162 Quincy wrote..that Free Soilism ‘has carried off multitudes of our abolitionists’.
2000 Church Hist. 69 591 Some Whig Methodists in the South turned to the Democrats as the best sectional defence against free-soilism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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