Editing Atlantic slave trade (section)

===Slave market regions and participation===
[[File:Africa slave Regions.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|Major slave trading regions of Africa, 15th–19th centuries]]

Europeans would buy and ship slaves to the Western Hemisphere from markets across West Africa. 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, 10.2&nbsp;million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas from the following regions in the following proportions:{{sfn|Lovejoy|2000|pp=}}{{page needed|date=July 2024}}
* [[Senegambia (geography)|Senegambia]] ([[Senegal]] and [[the Gambia]]): 4.8%
* [[Upper Guinea]] ([[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Guinea]] and [[Sierra Leone]]): 4.1%
* [[Pepper Coast|Windward Coast]] ([[Liberia]] and [[Ivory Coast]]): 1.8%
* [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] ([[Ghana]] and east of [[Ivory Coast]]): 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]], [[Equatorial Guinea]] and [[Gabon]]): 14.6%
* West Central Africa ([[Republic of Congo|Republic of the Congo]], [[Democratic Republic of Congo|Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and [[Angola]]): 39.4%
* Southeastern Africa ([[Mozambique]] and [[Madagascar]]): 4.7%

Although the slave trade was largely global, there was considerable intracontinental slave trade in which 8 million people were enslaved within the African continent.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |title=The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe |last=Inikori |first=Joseph |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |year=1992 |page=120}}</ref> Of those who did move out of Africa, 8 million were forced out of Eastern Africa to be sent to Asia.<ref name=":2" />