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Article: "THE (EXPLOITATIVE) COLOR OF MONEY'; POIGNANT WORKS TELL SLAVERY STORY; "THE COLOR OF MONEY' INCLUDES 50 ACRYLIC WORKS THAT DEPICT CONFEDERATE CURRENCY.(Stars)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2003
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Byline: KATHERINE RUSHWORTH CONTRIBUTING WRITER
It's amazing what you don't learn in school.
For example, I never knew that from 1780 until well into the 1860s, the Confederate states printed a variety of images of slaves and slavery on their paper currency.
They used the images as a propaganda tool, often portraying slaves dressed in fine clothes or working freely together in the fields. Sometimes they depicted them loading and unloading bales of cotton onto boats, often under the billowing stripes of the American flag.
The Confederacy used the currency as a government-sponsored advertising vehicle for the perpetuation of slavery.
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