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David Wilmot wanted slavery prohibited in territories acquired from which country?

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Mexico

Wilmot was a Democrat, a Free Soiler, and a Republican. He was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso (1846), intended to ban slavery in western lands gained from Mexico in the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848.

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