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What happened to Confederate money after the Civil War?

  • Written by Robert Gudmestad, Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
imageConfederate currency had images of enslaved people, historical figures and mythical deities.elycefeliz/Flickr, CC BY-NDimage

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