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Slavery & Abolition
A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
Volume 3, 1982 - Issue 2
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A new money supply series for West Africa in the era of the slave trade: The import of the cowrie shell from Europe

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Pages 153-162 | Published online: 13 Jun 2008

Notes

  • Johnson , Marion . 1970 . “The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa,” . Journal of African History , XI ( 1 ) : 17 – 49 . Parts I and II
  • Lovejoy , Paul E. 1974 . “Interregional Monetary Flows in the Pre‐Colonial Trade of Nigeria,” . Journal of African History , XV ( 4 ) : 563 – 85 .
  • Ofonagoro , Walter I. 1976 . “The Currency Revolution in Southern Nigeria, 1880–1948,” . Occasional Paper No. 14 Los Angeles : African Studies Center, UCLA .
  • “From Traditional to British Currency in Southern Nigeria: Analysis of a Currency Revolution, 1880–1948,” . Journal of Economic History , XXXIX ( 3 ) 623 – 54 .
  • Hopkins , A. G. 1966 . “The Currency Revolution in Southwest Nigeria in the Late Nineteenth Century,” . Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria , III ( 3 ) : 471 – 83 .
  • 1973 . An Economic History of West Africa New York
  • Curtin , Philip D. “Africa and the Wider Monetary World, 1250–1850,” . Edited by: Mazzouai , Maureen and Richards , John .
  • Hogendorn , J. S. and Gemery , H. A. 1981 . “Abolition and Its Impact on Monies Imported to West Africa,” . In The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade Edited by: Eltis , David and Walvin , James . Madison
  • 1975 . Journal of Political Economy , 83 ( 1 ) : 185 – 93 . felt constrained to apologize for an article on the cowrie it published in its
  • 1981 . “A ‘Supply‐Side’ Aspect of the African Slave Trade: The Cowrie Production and Exports of the Maldives,” . Slavery and Abolition , 2 ( 1 ) : 31 – 52 .
  • Heimann , James . 1979 . “Small Change and Ballast: Cowry Trade and Usage as an Example of Indian Ocean History,” . paper delivered at the International Conference on Indian Ocean Studies . August 1979 , Perth, Australia.
  • 1980 . South Asia , III ( 1 ) : 48 – 69 .
  • Johnson , Marion , Hogendorn , Jan and Lynch , Joanne . 1981 . “The European Cowrie Trade,” . Slavery and Abolition , 2 ( 3 ) : 263 – 75 .
  • Dept. of Economics, Colby College
  • Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham

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