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The "Free Soil" movement emerges in the northern U.S.

1848

The Story of Rural Health
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The Free Soil Party will exist for two election cycles and focuses on stopping the spread of enslavement in new states, particularly in the West. The party, while short-lived, will bring abolition back into the public eye and lead to the establishment of the Republican Party. One strategy of the Free Soil party is a focus on supporting individual ownership and operation of farms, as opposed to plantations that rely on enslaved labor.