American taxation, American slavery / Robin L. Einhorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Einhorn, Robin L. (Robin Leigh), 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History.

Slavery.

Taxation--Political aspects--United States--History.

Taxation.

Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History.

States' rights (American politics).

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 result is surprising-that the enduring power of antigovernment rhetoric in the United States stems from the nation's history of slavery rath

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue: Taxation without Representation

Part I. Colonial Tax Systems

Part II. National Tax Politics

Part III. The Synthesis in the States

Epilogue: James Madison on Slave Taxes

Appendix: How to Talk about Taxes

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-325) and index.

ISBN:

9786611956752

9781281956750

1281956759

9780226194899

0226194892

OCLC:

309904344