Marx and Slavery
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A long but interesting article about slavery in the USA and the abolitionists referencing Marx, the Daily Tribune and Free State Germans of Kansas
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/internationalist/pamphlets/MARX-on-Slavery-OptV5.pdf
Marx wrote extensively on slavery and colonialism. The Bolivarians are the ones claiming that he never wrote anything about slavery and colonialism because he was the person who debunked Simon Bolivar, calling him the Napoleon of Latin America. The real slave liberator was not Bolivar or Lincoln, it was Toussaint Louverture known as the Black Jacobin. Haiti did have a real antislavery uprising and it had an enormous influence in all the Americas, he never received the proper recognition because he was a black man
Article from the Socialist Standard here:
“The American South, despite its slave labour, was basically a commodity society in which goods (including slaves) and services were produced for sale on the market with a view to profit. A more fitting designation for the system is <i>Plantation Capitalism</i>.”
Slaves were used as collateral and endorsed to a bank to take a secured loan
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