Taxation in Colonial AmericaTaxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Alvin Rabushka provides the definitive history of taxation in the colonial era, and sets it against the backdrop of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval in the colonies and Europe. |
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... settlers. Parts II through VI represent periods of relative continuity, followed by major change. Part II covers 1607 to 1688, from the founding of Virginia to the Glorious Revolution in England, a period of growth in the colonies and ...
... settlers, who paid taxes on themselves and their slaves. It can be said that the labor income of slaves was heavily taxed, but that income belonged to slave owners who paid the tax, not the slaves. An important point of comparison ...
... settlers. Founders of proprietary colonies invariably received a temporary exemption from local taxes in the colonies they established. The monarchs and governments of the colonizing European powers placed strong emphasis on tax ...
... settlers. The same principle, occupation and ownership by “right of discovery,” applied to the monarchs of Portugal, Spain, Sweden, France, and Denmark, and the government of The Netherlands. Papal bulls justified the colonizing ...
... settlers. To be respected by the colonists, Indian titles had to be derived from the same source of legitimacy as their own titles. Indian titles were deemed inferior in the eyes of the Crown and the settlers. Early estimates of the ...
Contents
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Turmoil in EnglandGrowth in the Colonies 16071688 | 65 |
War in EuropeOpportunity in the Colonies 16881714 | 271 |
Salutary Neglect in the Colonies 17141739 | 441 |
War Debt Money and Taxes Prelude to Imperial Intervention 17391763 | 559 |
An American Tax 17631775 | 713 |
CONCLUSION | 865 |
APPENDIX | 871 |
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INDEX | 915 |