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Ten Dollar Confederate States of America Currency

Description:

This 10 dollar bank note, issued in Richmond, Viriginia, is for the Confederate States of America. It was issued on September 2, 1861. Made of paper, it depicts a slave picking cotton. Designs of much of Confederate currency was designed not only to celebrate its white heroes, but to validate system that held its black laborers in perpetual slavery.

Creator:

B. Duncan

Creation Date:

September 2, 1861

Collection Title:

Currency

Collection Number:

H 48724

Image Number:

TAH0801

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