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Rural poor - Southern States - History.

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Afro-Americans - Suffrage - Southern States - History - 20th century.

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We explain and document state-level fiscal developments in American Southern states from 1820-1910, focusing on their main source of revenue, progressive property taxes borne primarily by economic elites. The fourteen states in our analysis were characterized by severe economic exploitation of the enslaved and later politically repressed African-descended population by a small rural elite, who dominated the region both politically and economically. While rural elites are thought to be especially resistant to taxation, we offer a set of conditions that explains the emergence of progressive taxation and provides a coherent account of the fiscal development of these states over this period. Using an original, archival data set of annual tax revenues and select expenditure items, we show that the economic interests of these rural elites and the extent of their formal (over)representation played a critical role in shaping the observed fiscal patterns within and across these states over this period. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Property tax --- Elite (Social sciences) Southern States History --- History

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Praised as ?viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years?enriched by memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies. In vivid, compelling accounts, men and women from all walks of life tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how black Southerners fought back against the system?raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History. --- African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History. --- African Americans -- Southern States -- Interviews. --- Oral history. --- Southern States -- Race relations.

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Southern States - History - 1775-1865. --- United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Causes.