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- John_W._Jones_(artist) comment "John W. Jones is an American artist who first gained acclaim for his series "Confederate Currency: The Color of Money." Self-taught and drafted into the U.S. Army in 1970, he served in Vietnam, eventually becoming an Army illustrator. Examining Confederate banknotes, he became interested in the depiction of the slave economy in the American South before and during the Civil War. Banknotes of the era often depicted slaves as happy workers on the cotton plantations.".