| Response sheet 8, for lecture class, Thursday | |
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Please read the article by Robin Einhorn; see under Files in Canvas. 1. According to Einhorn, what were the three key taxation factors related to slavery? 2. Why, in the 1780s, an impost as the centerpiece of federal tax policy for over a century, until 1913? It ostensibly had no connection to slavery.... 3. How did the direct tax clauses in the U.S. Constitution (tellingly absent from the varioius state constitutions) protect slaveholders? 4. How did the politics of slavery impinge on debates about direct taxes to pay for the United States’ military tangles with the French in 1798 and the British in 1812? |