Description: "The Human Toll fills a gap in the historical record by documenting how the thirteen colonies that later became the United States of America deployed the power of taxation to support, promote, and perpetuate the institution of slavery"--
Brief description: Anthony C. Infanti is the Christopher C. Walthour, Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and author of Tax and Time: On the Use and Misuse of Legal Imagination and Our Selfish Tax Laws: Toward Tax Reform That Mirrors Our Better Selves.
Review Quotes: "Shows that taxes were not merely part of early American society, but rather embedded deeply in its social fabric and central to normalizing slavery as everyday practice. If the only guarantees in life are death and taxes, The Human Toll enriches our understanding of colonial American social, legal, and labor history."--Jared Ross Hardesty, author of Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate