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(I'm working on an article about Karl Marx and Project 1619 that will
put this into context.)
Engels to Marx, July 15, 1865
Mr Johnson’s policy is less and less to my liking, too. Nigger[1]-hatred
is coming out more and more violently, and he is relinquishing all his
power vis-à-vis the old lords in the South. If this should continue, all
the old secessionist scoundrels will be in Congress in Washington in 6
months time. Without coloured suffrage nothing can be done, and Johnson
is leaving it up to the defeated, the ex-slaveowners, to decide on that.
It is absurd. Nevertheless, one must still reckon on things turning out
differently from what these barons imagined. After all, the majority of
them have been completely ruined and will be glad to sell land to
immigrants and speculators from the North. The latter will arrive soon
enough and make a good number of changes. I think the mean whites will
gradually die out. Nothing more will become of this race; those who are
left after 2 generations will merge with the immigrants to make a
completely different race.
The niggers will probably turn into small squatters as in Jamaica. Thus
ultimately the oligarchy will go to pot after all, but the process could
be accomplished immediately at one fell swoop, whereas it is now being
drawn out.
https://marxists.catbull.com/archive/marx/works/1865/letters/65_07_15.htm
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