Slave market region and participation

There were eight principal areas used by Europeans to buy and ship slaves to the Western Hemisphere. The number of enslaved people sold to the new world varied throughout the slave trade. As for the distribution of slaves from regions of activity, certain areas produced far more enslaved people than others. Between 1650 and 1900 , 10.24 million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas from the following regions in the following proportions: [ 42 ] Senegambia ( Senegal and The Gambia ): 4.8 % Upper Guinea ( Guinea-Bissau , Guinea and Sierra Leone ): 4.1 Windward Coast ( Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire ): 1.8 % Gold Coast ( Ghana and east of Côte d'Ivoire ): 10.4 % Bight of Benin ( Togo , Benin and Nigeria west of the Niger Delta): 20.2 % Bight of Biafra ( Nigeria east of the Niger Delta , Cameroon West Central Africa ( Republic of Congo , Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola ): 39.4 % Southeastern Africa ( Mozambique and Madagascar ): 4.7 %