Editing Atlantic slave trade (section)

===Russia===
By 1802, Russian colonists noted that "Boston" (U.S.-based) skippers were trading African slaves for otter pelts with the [[Tlingit people]] in [[Southeast Alaska]].<ref name=Dauenhauer>{{Cite book |last1=Dauenhauer |first1=Nora Marks |first2=Richard |last2=Dauenhauer |first3=Lydia T. |last3=Black |title=''Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká'', Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804. |publisher=[[University of Washington Press]] |year=2008 |location=Seattle |pages=XXVI |isbn=978-0-295-98601-2}}</ref>
[[File:Atlantic Ocean slave location map by source and destination.png|thumb|upright=1.3|West Central Africa was the most common source region of Africa, and Portuguese America (Brazil) was the most common destination.]]
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|+ Distribution of slaves (1519–1867)<ref>Stephen D. Behrendt, [[W. E. B. Du Bois Institute|W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research]], [[Harvard University]]. Based on "records for 27,233 voyages that set out to obtain slaves for the Americas". {{cite book |last=Behrendt |first=Stephen |title= Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience |year=1999 |publisher=Basic Civitas Books |location=New York |isbn=0-465-00071-1 |chapter=Transatlantic Slave Trade |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop00appi}}</ref>
|-
!scope="col"| Destination
!scope="col"| Percent
|-
!scope="row"| [[Portuguese America]]
| 38.5%
|-
!scope="row"| [[British West Indies]]
| 18.4%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Spanish Empire]]
| 17.5%
|-
!scope="row"| [[French West Indies]]
| 13.6%
|-
!scope="row"| [[English overseas possessions#The Americas|English]]/[[British America|British North America]] / [[United States]]
| 9.7%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Dutch West Indies]]
| 2.0%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Danish West Indies]]
| 0.3%
|}
'''Notes:'''
* Before 1820, the number of enslaved Africans transported across the Atlantic to the New World was triple the number of Europeans who reached North and South American shores. At the time this was the largest oceanic [[Forced displacement|displacement or migration]] in history,<ref name="VoyagesIntro">{{cite web |url=https://slavevoyages.org/voyage/about#methodology/introduction/0/en/ |title=Understanding the Database - Methodology - Introduction |last=Eltis |first=David |author-link=openlibrary:authors/OL2767993A |year=2018 |department=Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade |work=[[Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database]] |quote=But what is often overlooked is that, before 1820, perhaps three times as many enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic as Europeans. This was the largest transoceanic migration of a people until that day, and it provided the Americas with a crucial labour force for their own economic development. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211022128/https://slavevoyages.org/voyage/about#methodology/introduction/0/en/ |archive-date=11 December 2020 |access-date=11 December 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> eclipsing even the far-flung, but less-dense, expansion of [[Austronesian peoples#Geographical distribution|Austronesian]]-[[Māori migration canoes#"Great fleet" hypothesis|Polynesian]] explorers.
* The number of Africans who arrived in each region is calculated from the total number of slaves imported, about 10,000,000.<ref>Curtin, ''The Atlantic Slave Trade'', 1972, p. 88.</ref>
* Includes [[British Guiana]] and [[British Honduras]]

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File:Punishing negroes at Cathabouco, Rio de Janeiro.png|Punishing slaves at Calabouço, in [[Rio de Janeiro]], {{circa|1822}}
File:Slaves resting by Rugendas 01.jpg|Recently bought slaves in Brazil on their way to the farms of the landowners who bought them {{Circa|1830}}
File:Tropenmuseum Royal Tropical Institute Objectnumber 3581-33h Ingekleurde litho voorstellende de oo.jpg|A 19th-century lithograph showing a sugarcane plantation in Suriname
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