Angel Martinez’s Reviews > Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala > Status Update

Thousands of Confederate Landowners did flee to south america where slavery remained an option for them but I’m not sure to what extent it really impacted the latifundio system which would have predated their arrival. For example United Fruit were owned mainly by dudes from Massachusetts and New York, rather than southern aristocracy.

Side note, I think both northern and southern US bourgeoisie have always both been fine with slavery - even today. They just disagreed with its use within the mainland. Sort of like how The British Empire patted itself on the back (many brits still do today!) for banning slavery in 1833 yet kept up the practice in many of their colonies for atleast another hundred years. Sort of a de jure vs de facto thing.

All that to say: I don’t think The South even needed to have a relationship at all. Capitalism was/is going to do latifundio with or without them.