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Bunce Island

A tiny fortified island in the Sierra Leone River, first settled by English slave traders around 1670 and operated as a major slave-trading castle until 1808 - roughly 50,000 enslaved Africans were shipped from here to the Americas, with the island best known as a chief supplier to the rice plantations of colonial South Carolina and Georgia. Abandoned after abolition and never rebuilt, it survives as one of the most authentic slave-trading sites anywhere.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1670 CE mainstream
  island first settled by English slave traders source
• 1808 CE mainstream
  the slave trade through Bunce Island ends with British abolition source

Where

8.5167° N, 13.1167° W

Sources

• https://www.sierraleoneheritage.org/sites/monuments/bunce
• https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/16/world/africa/bunce-island-slavery-west-africa/index.html

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