A ‘supply‐side’ aspect of the African slave trade: The cowrie production and exports of the MaldivesFootnote∗
Thanks are due to Mrs Marion Johnson of the University of Birmingham, my collaborator and mentor on all having to do with the cowrie; my assistants K. Dornish at Colby; J. Lynch of Colby at the PRO, Kew; F. Klinkenberg and J. Valkenberg, both of the University of Leiden, at the archives, The Hague; Julie Cannon and Ellen Thomson for the typing, and S. Stoddard at Colby for the proofreading.
Advice, encouragement, and assistance have been received from S. Arasaratnam of the University of New England, Pieter Emmer and Femme Gaastra of the University of Leiden, Henry Gemery of Colby College, Kristof Glamann of the Carlsbergfondet, James Heimann of Copenhagen University, and Paul Lovejoy of York University. John Richards of Duke University made it possible to push the writing along at a faster pace through his invitation to deliver the paper at the Mughal India Monetary Conference, Duke University, June 3–5, 1981. John Willis of Princeton University provided the final impetus for putting the paper in publishable form.

Jan S. Hogendorn Department of Economics, Colby College

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