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 ...

It highlights key events such as the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to maintain a balance between North and South regarding slavery. The film also ...

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 ...