The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America

by Anthony C. Infanti

How the thirteen colonies deployed the power of taxation to support, promote, and perpetuate the institution of slavery

The Human Toll documents how the American colonies used tax law to dehumanize enslaved persons, taxing them alongside valuable commodities upon their forced arrival and then as wealth-generating assets in the hands of slaveholders. Anthony C. Infanti examines how taxation also proved to be an important component...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479829862
• ISBN13: 9781479829866
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages