Segment from Paying Up

Tariff Values = Family Values

Host Ed Ayers speaks with historian Rebecca Edwards about how both Republicans and Democrats argued about the tariff in the terms of domesticity.

Host Peter Onuf travels to Colonial Williamsburg to interview “Patrick Henry” about his role in the Stamp Act rebellion of 1765.

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The Backstory hosts discuss the ways that the tax system in Early America hid many of the costs of national development.

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Peter Onuf gives a primer on the 19th century protective tariff, and Ed Ayers explains why the South hated it so much.

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Host Ed Ayers speaks with historian Rebecca Edwards about how both Republicans and Democrats argued about the tariff in the terms of domesticity.

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It takes place in 1765, obviously!
Several months ago, Britain’s parliament passed the Stamp Act, effectively imposing a new direct tax on any American colonist involved with printing of any kind.
Patrick Henry, just elected to the House of Burgesses, has reacted by authoring a set of resolves denouncing the Stamp Act in no uncertain language.

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