James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets Slavery and the Wilmot proviso; with som... Slavery and the Wilmot proviso; with some suggestions for a compromise This is the metadata section. Skip ...

The film discusses the historical context leading to the American Civil War, focusing on the sectional tensions between free and slave states from 1818 to 1861. It highlights key events such as the ...

A Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, David Wilmot, added a proviso mandating that slavery would be illegal in any of the new western territories that joined the United States. The Wilmot ...