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American Taxation, American Slavery (Paperback)
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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 origins of the enduringly popular Jeffersonian
rhetoric about weak government, showing that state governments were
actually more democratic--and stronger--where most people were
free.
A strikingly original look at the role of slavery in the making of
the United States, "American Taxation, American Slavery" will prove
essential to anyone interested in the history of American
government and politics.
"For those seeking to understand complex and ever-changing systems
of taxation, their relationship to local and national politics, and
how the state and local systems were shaped by the 'peculiar
institution, ' this seminal and innovative investigation will
provide many answers."--Loren Schweninger, "American Historical
Review" "[Einhorn] tells what might have been a complicated story
in an engaging and accessible manner. It is her contention that
slavery and the reaction to it to a great extent shaped the kind of
nation we are today, because it shaped the kind of tax policies we
constructed to fund the kind of government we got. . . . Required
reading for anyone who ponders the impact ofslavery on our lives
today."--James Srodes," Washington Times"
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