Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
The 'Irrepressible Conflict': Slave Taxation and North Carolina's Gubernatorial Election of 1860
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21220
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Abstract:
An examination of the controversy over slave taxation, a popular idea among slaveholders in that the taxation of their slaves as persons would provide a tax exemption for the bulk of their wealth. This issue came to a head in the gubernatorial election of 1860, where the divide between slave-holding whites, who dominated the state government, and non-slave-holding whites, who made up most of the population, was most acutely felt.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 1, Jan 1981,
p44-66, il, por, map
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