{"product_id":"american-taxation-american-slavery-paperback","title":"American Taxation, American Slavery - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobin L. Einhorn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Taxation, American Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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 rather than its history of liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e We are all familiar with the states' rights arguments of proslavery politicians who wanted to keep the federal government weak and decentralized. But here Robin Einhorn shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on this idea in American politics. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War, slaveholding elites feared strong democratic government as a threat to the institution of slavery. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Taxation, American Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Along the way, Einhorn exposes the antidemocratic origins of the popular Jeffersonian rhetoric about weak government by showing that governments were actually more democratic-and \u003ci\u003estronger\u003c\/i\u003e-where most people were free.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e A strikingly original look at the role of slavery in the making of the United States, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Taxation, American Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e will prove essential to anyone interested in the history of American government and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin L. Einhorn\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eProperty Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 399\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.77 x 5.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52477598269747,"sku":"9780226194882","price":63.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dUZvR01TLzdHZS80TUl3dUVYN0tFQT09.webp?v=1759622104","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/american-taxation-american-slavery-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}