American Taxation, American Slavery

by Robin L. Einhorn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226194876
• ISBN13: 9780226194875
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.3"