Editing Atlantic slave trade (section)

===Central America===
Slave exports to [[Honduras]] and [[Guatemala]] started in 1526. Historian Nigel Bolland writes of the slave trade in Central America: "The demand for labor in the early Spanish settlements of Hispaniola, [[Cuba]], [[Panama]], and [[Peru]] resulted in a large-scale [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indian (Indigenous people)]] slave trade in [[Central America]] in the second quarter of the 16th century. Indeed, the first colonial economy of the region was based on slave trading."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bolland |first1=Nigel |title=Colonization and slavery in central America |journal=Slavery & Abolition |date=1994 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=11–25 |doi=10.1080/01440399408575123 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01440399408575123#:~:text=The%20demand%20for%20labour%20in,was%20based%20on%20slave%20trading. |access-date=29 February 2024 |archive-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229181859/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01440399408575123#:~:text=The%20demand%20for%20labour%20in,was%20based%20on%20slave%20trading. |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the 16th century, the majority of Africans imported to Central America came from present-day [[Senegambia]] and other West African regions. Between 1607 and 1640, Portuguese slave traders imported Africans from Angola to [[Honduras]] and were sold in [[Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala|Santiago de Guatemala]] to work in the sugar and indigo plantations. The majority of the Africans working in the plantations were from the Luanda region in Central Africa.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lokken |first1=Paul |title=From the "Kingdoms of Angola" to Santiago de Guatemala: The Portuguese Asientos and Spanish Central America, 1595–1640 |journal=[[Hispanic American Historical Review]] |date=2013 |volume=93 |issue=2 |pages=171–203 |doi=10.1215/00182168-2077126 |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-abstract/93/2/171/10778/From-the-Kingdoms-of-Angola-to-Santiago-de?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=1 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726161245/https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-abstract/93/2/171/10778/From-the-Kingdoms-of-Angola-to-Santiago-de?redirectedFrom=fulltext |archive-date=26 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>