Bunce Island

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Bunce Island

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle

Twenty miles up the Sierra Leone River from Freetown is Bunce Island, the site of a former British slave trading castle. The castle operated from 1670 and 1808 and sent around 50,000 enslaved... »

Cultures and Civilizations , Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins | Edited by leiris, Nicholas Jackson and others

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