Record #:

21220

Author(s):

Butts, Donald C.

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 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Slavery--Taxation