American taxation, American slavery:
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1. Verfasser: Einhorn, Robin L., (Robin Leigh) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press ©2006
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-325) and index
Prologue : taxation without representation -- Colonial tax systems -- Virginia -- Massachusetts -- Variations -- National tax debates -- The origin of the tariff -- Direct taxes -- The synthesis in the states -- Property taxes -- Epilogue : James Madison on slave taxes -- Appendix : how to talk about taxes
In American Taxation, American Slavery, Robin Einhorn shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on America's fear and loathing of taxes. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War, slaveholding elites feared strong and democratic government as a threat to the institution of slavery. Einhorn reveals how the heated battles over taxation, the power to tax, and the distribution of tax burdens were rooted not in debates over personal liberty but rather in the rights of slaveholders to hold human beings as property. Along the way, she exposes the antidemocratic origi
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ISBN:9780226194899
0226194892
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