In the excerpt above, George's "free soil" is a reference to his grave.
This excerpt in from Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel written by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people. The book starts with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts.
Antonym's are words that mean the opposite of each other, like how good is the opposite of bad. So, when you look at these examples the opposite of reject is accept, and the opposite of something ending is something beginning. I hope this helps :)