The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America

by Anthony C. Infanti

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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

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