Depictions of Slavery in Confederate and Southern States Currency
Original Acrylic on Canvas Paintings by


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Legacy

Though the end of the Civil War abolished slavery, its destructive images of racism and discrimination prevailed, engraved on currencies in the South through a century of Jim Crow laws and segregation.
As late as 1872, for example, an image of “happy” slaves picking cotton appeared with George Washington on a $50.00 revenue bond scrip issued by the State of South Carolina.

  

       

 

The Franklin G. Burroughs
Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
3100 South Ocean Boulevard
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

                         

"Slaves Picking Cotton"
Collection of Dr. Harold Rhodes III
Charleston, South Carolina

 

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State of Mississippi  $100.00

To view additional bank notes where this vignette of "Slaves Picking Cotton" was used, click on any note below.


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The Color of Money book (clothbound edition) includes a free CD-ROM
with images of hundreds of additional currencies that show depictions of slavery