| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-325) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Slavery -- Political aspects. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Slavery. |
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Taxation -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Taxation -- Political aspects. |
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Taxation. |
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Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History.
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Slavery -- Economic aspects. |
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States' rights (American politics)
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States' rights (American politics) |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1865 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Einhorn, Robin L. (Robin Leigh), 1960- American taxation, American slavery. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006 0226194876 (DLC) 2005030545 (OCoLC)62172701 |
| ISBN |
9780226194899 (electronic book) |
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0226194892 (electronic book) |
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0226194876 |
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9780226194882 |
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