- NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: The Wilmot Proviso Passes
The ‘Wilmot Proviso’, as it has come to be called, mandated, “that, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico… neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted ”
- NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: The Wilmot Proviso Passes
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- NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: The Wilmot Proviso Passes
Thanks! I was trying to come up with antebellum US pods while reading The Impending Crisis, and it opened with the first attempt to pass the Wilmot Proviso, and just how close it came to passing I plotted out some basic events like the alt-Compromise of 1850 on paper before I wrote out the first few chapters in a fit of inspiration
- NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: The Wilmot Proviso Passes
To this end, a formal convention was called in Milwaukee [1], organized, and attended by abolitionists, both Whig and Democrat (including Rep David Wilmot), and former northern Whigs The July Milwaukee convention was held to simply establish the principles and name of this new party – the Freedom Party would formally nominate candidates
- NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: The Wilmot Proviso Passes
Its not 'exactly like OTL' It follows a similar trajectory to OTL, but it starts out with a slew of radical stuff - land redistribution (40 Acres and a Mule type stuff), Wade-Davis, which Lincoln vetoed OTL, but Fremont signs (that prevents the southern states from readmission until after 1868)
- Wilmot Proviso Passes, 1846 | alternatehistory. com
It is actually conceivable that the Wilmot Proviso might have passed the Senate in 1846 At that time it was almost purely a sectional, not a party issue--northern Democrats voted almost unanimously for it in the House If they were to back it unanimously in the Senate, just one vote from a
- NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: The Wilmot Proviso Passes
So will John C Fremont avoid an assassination attempt Also, no matter how radical the Republican or Freedomite administration is there will still be Confederate monuments and memorials especially given the fact this is before World War II where views on race are drastically different and the need to reconciliation and reunion
- NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: The Wilmot Proviso Passes
Well sure, but at some point, events cross the pond TTL, the first butterflies reach Europe when Sam Houston strong-arms Spain into selling Cuba, and spread out from there
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