Wilmot Proviso Circulars
Trinity University Special Collections and Archives
Wilmot Proviso
Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories
United States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1849
Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History
Sectionalism (United States)
Wilmot, David, 1814-1868
Collection of circulars, pamphlets, speeches, and other ephemera related to the Wilmot Proviso. The Wilmot Proviso was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846 by Congressman David Wilmot as a provision of an appropriations bill. The proviso sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War. The bill passed in the House but failed in the Senate. Although it did not pass into law, the Wilmot Proviso is credited with intensifying the slavery debate in the years leading up to the Civil War.
1847-1911
1 box (0.25 linear feet)
http://trinity-archives.accesstomemory.org/wilmot-proviso-circulars
SC.003
eng
http://trinity-archives.accesstomemory.org/trinity-university-archives-and-special-collections
Trinity University Special Collections and Archives
Texas
Washington (D.C.)
United States
This collection is open and available to the public for research in the Special Collections & Archives reading room. The materials are non-circulating.