[Marxism] two questions on Marx

["George Snedeker" <snedeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

it seems to me that Marx's focus on the sale of labor power and the centrality 
of industrial labor to capitalism led Marx to treat slavery as a form of 
primitive accumulation and not as central to capitalism as it was.he concluded 
that the problem with slavery was that it lowered the wages of the proletariat 
not that it was immoral or that it had its own contradictions as a system of 
capital accumulation. I know that Marx wrote articles on the U.S. Civil War, 
but did he have anything to say about the Haitian Revolution or Sam Sharpe's 
Rebellion in Jamaica? I am trying to figure out how he came to conclude that 
the political action of the industrial proletariat was a greater threat to 
capitalism than slave revolts. Marx followed the revolutions of 1848 very 
closely, but were they really more important than the numerous slave revolts 
which were taking place just prior to these revolutions in Europe?  
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