>>20237370Among many interesting things I learned was that although silver dollars were generally unpopular outside the western mining-friendly regions, they were favored among illiterate emancipated negroids in the south because they didn't trust greenbacks and gold coin was seldom seen in circulation, so apparently they were widely used by southern blacks from the beginning of the Morgan dollar through to the writing of the book, with wider acceptance of greenbacks only gaining traction by the latter 1920s.
