American taxation, American slavery
By: Robin Einhorn.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Taxation -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History; State rights; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
Description: "For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the Founding Fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. American Taxation, American Slavery tackles this problem in a new way. Rather than parsing the ideological pronouncements of charismatic slaveholders, it examines the concrete policy decisions that slaveholders and non-slaveholders made in the critical realm of taxation. The results are surprising - that the enduring power of antigovernment rhetoric in the United States stems from the nation's history of slavery rather than its history of liberty."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : taxation without representation; title: Colonial tax systems; title: Virginia; title: Massachusetts; title: Variations; title: National tax debates; title: The origin of the tariff; title: Direct taxes; title: The synthesis in the states; title: Property taxes; title: Epilogue : James Madison on slave taxes; title: Appendix : how to talk about taxes.