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.
The result is surprising-that the enduring power of anti.
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.
American Taxation, American Slavery tackles this problem in a new way.
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