British buyers usually bought most of their slaves along the Sierra Leone coast, then filled up their vessels with slaves from the Windward Coast, mainly from Bassa, followed by Cape Mount.
Most Windward slaves went to the Caribbean, 146,096; Brazil received 2,795; other regions of Africa, 2,595; and the Spanish American mainland, 120. Within the Caribbean, the biggest recipients of Windward captives were Jamaica, 34,162; Barbados, 15,180; Grenada, 14,545; Antigua, 12,175; and Dominica, 10,963.
In 1614-1616 or 1620, rice was one of the few goods available for sale at Cape Mount.
Footnote: Vos, 2010, p. 33; Vos, 2012, pp. 1-2; http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.face; Brun, 1983, pp. 74-75, n. 185.
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