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After 1846 and the Wilmot Proviso -- an amendment to a bill that would have prohibited slavery in any territory obtained from Mexico [the so-called "Mexican Cession"]-- the term _____________________ meant someone who opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories, but who pledged not to interfere with slavery where it already existed. Many antislavery people were also racist and desired to keep blacks out of the territories and preserve those territories for free white labor.
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