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aug 2, 1848 - Free Soil Party

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Founded 1848 in Buffalo New York by Martin Van Buren, Salmon P Chase, and John P. Hale. This party’s main purpose was to oppose the expansion of slavery into the western territories arguing that free men on free soil constituted a morally and economically superior system to slavery.

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aug 2, 1848
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~ 177 years ago