Liberty party

noun

, U.S. History.

the first antislavery political party, organized in 1839 and merged with the Free Soil party in 1848.

As the Liberty party experiment had proved, an abolitionist running for office on an antislavery platform was doomed to defeat.

He was up in front of the First Regiment, mustered in with the liberty party.

I heard his name read out with the liberty party only a moment ago.

But into the politics of the time had come a new factor—the “Liberty party.”

"We thought it was one of yesterday's liberty party trying to get back to the ship," responded the man addressed as Bill.

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