Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750.
The historical legal principle that English law did not officially recognise slavery, meaning anyone who stepped ashore in England was technically a free person.
Free Soil appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for Migrants to Britain (c.1250–Present), especially Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750 and Early African and Indian migrants.
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