Slavery in Sierra Leone

A community heritage center on an overlooked island in the Sierra Leone River estuary.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.