the continuum of events leading from past to present
David Wilmot was a Pennsylvania-born congressman who opposed slavery. His "proviso"—a clause tacked on to a number of legislation being debated in Congress—prohibited slavery in all of the new territory won from Mexico following the Mexican War. Although the proviso was well-liked in the North, it was vehemently opposed by the South and never became a part of the legislation. It declared that slavery would be outlawed in any new area that the United States might take over from Mexico. The argument over whether slavery still exists in the West was rekindled.
The coming of Islam to saharan Africa facilitated the rise of political empires encouraged trade and wealth increased the traffic in slavery in its pure form Islam was more attractive to kings because of its concept of the caliph combined political power with religious authority
When history is revived by one
