The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
African Studies
ISBN-10
0521541107
ISBN-13
9780521541107
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 18th, 2003
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
410 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.10 x 1.50 cms
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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.
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