![]() ![]() ![]() This is evidenced by the fact that Bunce Island itself remained forgotten for generations. Nonetheless, Britain’s role in the slave trade is often glossed over or ignored. Half of all the millions of Africans carried into slavery in the eighteenth century were transported on British ships. Between 1618, which marked the rise of the British slave trade, and 1807, when the country abolished it, Britain was the premier slave-trading nation in the Atlantic. This island contains the ruins of a fortress that, for over a century, was at the heart of the British slave trade in Africa.įrom that fortress, tens of thousands of enslaved Africans were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas. There’s an island at the mouth of the Sierra Leone River in West Africa called Bunce Island. ![]()
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