Civil War in England reduces English overseas trade and settlement

Nicholas Crispe, a Royalist, is removed from the Guinea Company. Wartime disruptions interrupt the flow of English goods to Cormantine and other English trading posts for several years. Others, such as London merchant and Barbados investor Maurice Thompson, sponsor rival trade missions to Guinea to procure slaves for Caribbean plantations beginning to experiment with sugar production. The first documented American-bound Ghanaian slaves were purchased at Winneba in 1642.