Traders from the Americas and Caribbean received the enslaved Africans. European powers such as Portugal, Britain, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark–Norway, Sweden, Courland and Brandenburg, as well as traders from Brazil and North America, took part in the trade. The enslaved Africans came mostly from the regions of Senegambia, Upper Guinea, Windward Coast, Gold Coast, Bight of Benin, Bight of Biafra, and Dutch Loango-Angola. Between 1525 and 1859, the slave trade from the Bight of Biafra alone accounted for over two-thirds of slaves exported to the New World.