By 1700, traders documented an emerging trade in ivory and trickles of gold. Both of those commodities would be overtaken fifty years later by the traffic in Africans. As European interest in slaves grew, they stopped buying African products, like cotton cloth, for sale to Europe and other regions.
Cape Mount was one of 13 slave-exporting ports in Liberia. Others were Bassa, Cess, Grand Bassa, Little Bassa, Grand Junk, Little Junk, Grand Mesurado, Petit Mesurado, Grand Sestos, Rock Sestos, St. Paul and Trade Town.
Within Liberia, Cape Mount supplied the largest number of enslaved persons, 42,521.
Footnote: Vos, 2010, p. 32; Vos, 2012, p. 3; Ehret, 2013, p. 469; http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces.
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