Notwithstanding this boon, by 1660, England had become the clear volume leader in the North Atlantic slave trade, a position it would not relinquish until it abolished the trade in 1807.† This, in fact, was the moment when the Gold Coast went from being predominantly prized as a gold mine to being regarded above all as a slave mine, whose Black labor had become highly prized in Jamaica and other parts of the English Caribbean.
