Depictions of Slavery in Confederate and Southern States Currency
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The Color Of Money exhibition has been reviewed by several media organizations. 

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Please click on this link to hear the John W. Jones Fresh Air interview by Barbara Bogaev
broadcast on August 14, 2002 on over 400 NPR radio stations nationwide.


 

 



 



 



 

 

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         Live Television interview on April 10, 2001 on


APRIL 30, 2001 VO. 157 NO. 17
Ghosts Of The South

BY STEVE LOPEZ

In "Confederate Currency: The Color of Money," at the Avery Research Center in Charleston, an African-American artist named John W. Jones took the romanticized slave-labor scenes from Confederate currency and reproduced them in oil paintings paired with the bills. The effect is to punctuate the exploitation of blacks for profit. One scene depicts a sun-lit goddess of good fortune in repose, counting her gold as slaves toil in the fields behind her.

 

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