» Free-Stater was also a term for those from the Irish Free State and particularly those on the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War. The term is still used pejoratively and anachronistically in Northern Ireland for those from the Republic of Ireland.Free-Stater was the name given those settlers in Kansas Territory during the Bleeding Kansas era in the 1850s who opposed the extension of slavery to Kansas. Many Free-Staters were abolitionists from New England, in part because there was an orga… (More on Free-stater)