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Robin L. EinhornPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E441 .E38 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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American Taxation, American Slavery shows how their 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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Slavery — Political aspects — United States — History
- Taxation — Political aspects — United States — History
- Slavery — Economic aspects — United States — History
- States’ rights (American politics)
- United States — Politics and government — 1775-1783
- United States — Politics and government — 1783-1865
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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
ISBN
- 0226194876
- 9780226194875
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