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Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency

The Images: Transportation

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This image represents the process of moving the cotton from the plantation to market and ultimately to the broker. It appears on: North Carolina, Bank of Lexington, $5 (1861)[singlepic id=310 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Note the “Cotton Broker” legend is omitted on the following: Eastern Bank of Alabama, $5 (UNC)[singlepic id=244 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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T-13 Confederate States of America, $100 (1861)[singlepic id=338 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

T-23 Confederate States of America, $10 (1861) (not pictured)


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State of Mississippi, $2 (1870)[singlepic id=301 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Georgia, Macon & Brunswick RR Co., $1 (1867)[singlepic id=275 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Alabama, Selma, Marion & Memphis RR Co., $2 (1871)[singlepic id=250 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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State of South Carolina, $50 Revenue Bond Script (1872)[singlepic id=316 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Alabama, County of Montgomery, $5 (1861) (not pictured)

South Carolina RR Co., $20 (1873) (Only 200 printed) (not pictured)

Georgia, Manufacturers Bank, $20 (1862) (not pictured)


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State of South Carolina, $1 (1872)[singlepic id=312 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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Louisiana, City of Baton Rouge, $1 (1862)[singlepic id=280 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Texas, Austin County, $2 (1862)[singlepic id=330 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

North Carolina, Farmers Bank, $4 (not pictured)


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Eastern Bank of Alabama, $5 (UNC)[singlepic id=244 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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Georgia, Bank of Columbus, $1 (1856)[singlepic id=260 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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South Carolina, Farmers & Exchange Bank of Charleston, $5 (1861)[singlepic id=324 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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Georgia, Merchants & Planters Bank, $1 (1857)[singlepic id=264 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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State of Alabama, 25 cents (1863)[singlepic id=242 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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Louisiana, Baton Rouge Yarn Company stock certificate (1880s)[singlepic id=297 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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Missouri, Merchants Bank of St. Louis, $10 (not pictured)

Arkansas, County of Phillips, $1 (not pictured)


This vignette is one of several different “dockside” images used in Confederate currency.

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Louisiana, City of New Orleans, $1 (1862)[singlepic id=279 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Bank of the State of South Carolina, $1 (no date)[singlepic id=312 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Louisiana, City of New Orleans, $1,000 consolidated bond (1880)[singlepic id=286 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

T-35 Confederate States of America, $5 (1861)[singlepic id=349 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Louisiana, Bossier Levee District, $1,000 bond (not pictured)

State of Arkansas, $10 (not pictured)


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Louisiana, Canal Bank, $100 (UNC)[singlepic id=290 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Virginia, Exchange Bank, $1 (1863)[singlepic id=336 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

South Carolina, Farmers & Exchange Bank, $50 (1861)[singlepic id=241 w=auto h=16 float=inline]


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Alabama, Bank of Selma, $10 (Alabama) (1862)[singlepic id=249 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Alabama, Eastern Bank of Alabama, $10 (Eufaula) (UNC)[singlepic id=245 w=auto h=16 float=inline]

Arkansas, Exchange Bank, $10 (Arkansas)[singlepic id=253 w=auto h=16 float=inline]