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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.
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![](SlavesPickingCotton.jpg)
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The Franklin G. Burroughs
Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
3100
South Ocean Boulevard
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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"Slaves
Picking Cotton"
Collection of Dr. Harold Rhodes III
Charleston, South Carolina |
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![](pick100MS.jpg)
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State of Mississippi $100.00
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To view additional bank notes where this
vignette of
"Slaves Picking Cotton" was used, click on any
note below. |
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![](SlavesPickingCottonNote%20FL-t.jpg)
State of Florida |
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![](PickSAV2-t.jpg)
State of Georgia |
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![](Pick3TN-t.jpg)
State of Tennessee |
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![](FLPicking10-t.jpg)
State of Florida |
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![](pick100MS-t.jpg)
State of Mississippi |
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![](PickSC-t.jpg)
State of South Carolina |
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![](GApick-t.jpg)
State of Georgia |
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![](Pick50MO-t.jpg)
State of Missouri |
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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
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