Background
Hogendorn, Jan Stafford was born on October 27, 1937 in Lahaina, Hawaii, United States. Son of Paul E. and Helen (Stafford) Hogendorn.
(This study examines the role of cowrie-shell money in Wes...)
This study examines the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade. The shells were carried from the Maldives to the Mediterranean by Arab traders for further transport across the Sahara, and to Europe by competing Portuguese, Dutch, English and French traders for onward transport to the West African coast. In Africa they served to purchase the slaves exported to the New World, as well as other less sinister exports. Over a large part of West Africa they became the regular market currency, but were severely devalued by the importation of thousands of tons of the cheaper Zanzibar cowries. Colonial governments disliked cowries because of the inflation and encouraged their replacement by low-value coins. They disappeared almost totally, to re-appear during the depression of the 1930s, and have been found occasionally in the markets of remote frontier districts, avoiding exchange and currency control problems.
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(This book examines the decline of slavery in Northern Nig...)
This book examines the decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during the first forty years of colonial rule. At the time of the British conquest, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest slave societies in modern history. Rather than emancipate slaves, the colonial state abolished the legal status of slavery, encouraging them to buy their freedom. Many were unable to do so, and slavery was not finally abolished until l936. The authors have written a provocative book, raising doubts over the moral legitimacy of both the Sokoto Caliphate and the colonial state.
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Hogendorn, Jan Stafford was born on October 27, 1937 in Lahaina, Hawaii, United States. Son of Paul E. and Helen (Stafford) Hogendorn.
Bachelor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1960. Master of Science in Economics, London School of Economics, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, London School of Economics, 1966.
Instructor economics, Boston University, 1962; professor economics, Colby College, Waterville, Maine., 1963-1975; Grossman professor economics, Colby College, Waterville, Maine., since 1976.
(This book examines the decline of slavery in Northern Nig...)
(This study examines the role of cowrie-shell money in Wes...)
Married Dianne Hogendorn, September 6, 1960. 1 child, Christiaan.