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Free Soilers

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Free Soilers 

members of a mass, radical democratic party in the USA during the 1840’s and 1850’s. The Free Soil Party, formed in 1848, enjoyed the support of labor organizations, craftsmen, and radical strata of the bourgeoisie and intelligentsia. The Free Soilers advocated free distribution of land from the public domain to homesteaders and the prohibition of land sales to capitalist companies; they opposed the spread of slavery to the new territories. They took part in the armed struggle against slaveholding in Kansas during the period 1854–56. After the creation of the Republican Party in 1854, the Free Soilers became part of the party’s left, radical democratic wing.
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He carried guns and weapons to the Free Soilers who were emigrating to the Kansas Territory in the 1850s.
From Abolition to Dickinson, Rev. Higginson made his mark by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
His story traces the rise of political antislavery in Massachusetts, from Garrisonian abstainers, through the formation of the Liberty Party in 1840, to the complex battles between Free Soilers and Know Nothings in the 1850s.
Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform by Real, Patrick / Journal of Social History
Surprised by the vigorous reaction against him by Free Soilers and anti-Kansas-Nebraska forces, Douglas began to speak to Illinois crowds to defend himself.
Lincoln: a Weberian politician meets the constitution by Underwood, James E. / Presidential Studies Quarterly
 
 
 
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