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Propaganda
Images
on Southern currencies circulating throughout the country were designed to
reinforce Southern convictions about the legitimacy of enslaved labor and
to convince Northerners of its beneficial nature for Africans. Images were
increasingly characterized by smiling workers and well dressed blacks in
happy scenes. Note the painful hypocrisy in portraying a happy mother and
child within a system that routinely separated families and sold children. |
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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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"Slave Mother and Child"
Collection of Sybil Y. Parson
High Point, North Carolina |
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State of Georgia $2.00
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| To view additional bank notes where this
vignette of
"Slave Mother and Child" was used, click on any
note below.
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State of Georgia
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State of Kentucky
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State of North Carolina
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State of Georgia
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State of Virginia
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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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