Are embarkation regions in Estimates and the Voyages Database defined differently?
No. Both sections make use of Philip Curtin’s widely used distinction of eight regions of the Africa where slaves were embarked for transportation to the Americas. These regions are segments of the African Atlantic coastline in Africa from Senegambia in the North to West Central Africa in the South, with an eighth region in South-east Africa. In the website, off-shore islands are grouped with the region to which they are closest in proximity: the Cape Verde islands and Madeira with Senegambia, the Banana islands and Bance island with Sierra Leone, the Guinea islands with the Bight of Biafra, St. Helena with West Central Africa (although slaves were only disembarked there), and Indian ocean islands, the Mascarene islands, and Madagascar with Southeast Africa.
