... Tribute: this was an annual tax so heavy and so cruellyextorted that it kept the great body of the people in a state littlebetter than that of slavery...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...to get them both out of the country! I’faith, ’twill be a toughjob, and tax even the ingenuity of our chief...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...To all but thedoctrinaires, who shrank from taxing men as property, theargument that the failure to tax slaves was equivalent to abounty, was conclusive...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...He plainly stated that the tax was designedto check the trade, and that he was "sorry that the Constitutionprevented Congress from prohibiting the importationaltogether...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...Congress (House): Bill to Tax Slaves Imported...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...They are supported by the appropriation of a few thousands of a small fresh-water fish, called "Cacusu", a portion of the tax levied upon the fishermen of the Coanza...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...If it is, I should recommend my German friends, ifthey wish to intervene, to introduce the income tax into Cameroon -that would eliminate this custom...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...This tax, I believe, is now removedor much reduced; but as for the Liberian Republic, it simply gets itsrevenue in an utterly unjustifiable way out of taxing the Krumen whoship as labourers...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...This favor was granted Abram; but he was compelled to pay $15 per month for his time, besides finding himself in clothing, food, paying doctor bills, and a head tax of $15 a year...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...There is also a statute inGeorgia requiring that a separate tax list be kept in every county, of theproperty of white and colored persons...
Booker T. Washington, et al. 「The Negro Problem」
...“I didn’t know there was a dog tax,” said Miss Clementina...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
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