In the 1850s, many in Washington realized that they were going to have to abolish slavery. Why? Not because it was an unspeakable crime, they knew that. But economics always tops stopping an unspeakable crime. After witnessing slave rebellions, they realized that if nothing was done about, they were increasing the risk of the rise of Communism under the abolitionist banner. Marx published the Communist Manifesto in 1848, however, most abolitionists were Geoists, it was very likely that at some point the slaves would join with the immigrant wage laborers and united under Communism as opposed to the less revolutionary Geoism.
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