Bunce Island House: interior looking southeast — Photographer: Tommy E. Kain/World Monuments Fund
Bunce Island – Sierra Leone
There is a ruined castle situated on the island that was built by a British slave-trading company somewhere around 1670. Tens of thousands of African slaves were shipped from this Island to the Americas.
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Bunce Island South enclosure wall: east end — Photographer: Tommy E. Kain/World Monuments Fund
Bunce Island House: southwest exterior Photographer: Tommy E. Kain/World Monuments Fund
