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In American Taxation; American Slavery;Robin Einhorn shows the deep; broad; and continuous influence of slavery on America’s fear and loathing of taxes. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War; slaveholding elites feared strong and democratic government as a threat to the institution of slavery. Einhorn reveals how the 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; she exposes the antidemocratic origins of the enduringly popular Jeffersonian rhetoric about weak government; showing that state governments were actually more democratic—and stronger—where most people were free. A strikingly original look at the role of slavery in the making of the United States; American Taxation; American Slavery will prove essential to anyone interested in the history of American government and politics. “For those seeking to understand complex and ever-changing systems of taxation; their relationship to local and national politics; and how the state and local systems were shaped by the ‘peculiar institution;’ this seminal and innovative investigation will provide many answers.”—Loren Schweninger; American Historical Review