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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
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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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