How to pronounce“cowrie”in English
These products took a much more circuitous route than a simple triangle.
Cowrie shells, for example, were picked up from merchants along the Pacific Ocean or South Asian coasts, then “cured” and processed in Sri Lanka, then shipped again.
With slaves coming to the New World across the Pacific and commodities to pay for them flowing in multiple directions, the slave trade into the Americas was part of a global,
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Definitions of “cowrie”
A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.
Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.
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