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Individuals With Cotton

Hat, basket, striped pants
Hat, basket, striped pants
Always on the left of the note, this appears on the Texas, Washington County, $3 (no date), the Southern Railroad Company, $5 (1862) from Vicksburg, Mississippi, notes issued by Louisiana merchant John Bishop (1860s) and Josiah Morris Banker (1862) of Montgomery, Alabama.

 

This image can be found on the Arkansas Treasury Warrant, $10 (1862). It appears with a red "V" overprint on the Louisiana, St. John the Baptist Parish, $5 (1862). Hat, basket, barefoot
Hat, basket, barefoot

 

Alone in field, river boat in distance
Alone in field, river boat in distance
This image appears only on the denominations of the Louisiana, Red River Packet Company, $2 (1861).

 

This unique vignette is featured only on the New Orleans Bank of Improvement, $50 (1840).

Note the seed coming from the slave's hand. It is unknown whether he is sowing for a plantation owner or himself using seeds brought over from Africa. New Orleans was the leading slave importing port in America and many seeds were introduced from salves' native lands.

Individual sowing
Individual sowing

 

Individual with basket, two bushes
Individual with basket, two bushes
Virginia, Traders Bank of Richmond, $20 (UNC)

 

A realistic variation of this stylized image found on the T-29 note illustrates the following notes:

Alabama, Eastern Bank $10

Bank of South Carolina, $20 (1857)

North Carolina, Bank of Lexington, $5 (1861)

 

Picking cotton, two baskets
Picking cotton, two baskets

 

Smiling slave with basket
Smiling slave with basket
Georgia, Bank of Greensborough, $2 (1858)

Georgia, Bank of Commerce, $1 (1861)

 

State of Mississippi, 50 cents (1864)

 


Slave with hat hoeing, rear view

 

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