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By in large, American capitalism utterly failed African Americans.
Through slavery, segregation, poverty enducing sharecropping, discriminatory lending by banks and hiring by factories, etc., success in the meritocracy of the American economic system was out of reach for many blacks before and after the ACW.
So given this reality, what if these same disenfranchised people embraced the pull of Communism enmass as way toward economic and political liberation say from 1880 onword?

As a reference point there were approx. 8.8 million African Americans, with 90% living in the south in 1900.
So let's say Marxist ideology spreads among 35% of population.

What would happen if 3 million Black Marxist revolutionaries cropped up in 1890s USA?
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