The Shell Money of the Slave Trade (African Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521541107
Subjects: Finance; World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; USA; Africa - General; History / Africa; History / Renaissance; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
First sentence: The "contemptible shells of the Maldives" which "prove the price of Mankind" are money cowries, Cypraea moneta.