Really doubt he was the only one who wanted to enslave non-black people considering their racism follows their class position and they'd benefit from having more slaves regardless. Also have Rome to be inspired by, etc.
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We treat the Abolitionists and Socialists as identical, because they are notoriously the same people, employing the same arguments and bent on the same schemes. Abolition is the first step in Socialism: ...
... and that proposals by socialists were untested and went against human nature:
Sounds like something a modern day chud would say. Truly ahead of his time.
Too soon for his time