A person who supported the free silver movement and believed in unlimited coinage of silver money.
From 'free silver' + '-ite' (Greek -ites, indicating a follower or advocate). A political label used during the 1890s American populist movement.
Freesilverites were mostly farmers and working people who felt betrayed by big banks and were desperate for solutions—they saw unlimited silver as their ticket to fairness, and their passion nearly elected William Jennings Bryan president.
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