The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
Jan Hogendorn, Marion Johnson
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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This study examines the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade. Over a large part of West Africa they became the regular market currency, but then disappeared almost totally, except during the depression of the 1930s, and occasionally in the markets of remote frontier districts.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521541107
- ISBN-10
- 0521541107
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2003
- Publication date
- 2003-09-18
- Pages
- 248
- Dimensions
- 229x151x15
- Weight
- 384