ABSTRACT
Civil War broke out in the United States of America in 1861, after the secession from the Union of most of the southern slave states, and ended in 1865 with the victory of the North, followed by the reintegration of the rebel states in the Union and the abolition of slavery throughout the USA. Karl Marx dealt with possibility of war between Britain and the northern states in several articles for the New York Daily Tribune in December 1861. 'The friends of the United States on this side of the Atlantic,' Marx said, 'anxiously hope that conciliatory steps will be taken by the Federal government. 'The outbreak of American Civil War coincided with an acute crisis in neighbouring Mexico, where prolonged civil commotion had produced near-anarchy and economic chaos. An insurrection of sorts in British crown colony of Jamaica in 1865 provoked few comments from Marx and Friedrich Engels who, had lost their regular outlets for journalistic activity in 1862.
