Between 1750 and 1800, Bunce Island was one of the major slave trading centres on the Rice Coast of West Africa and the island played a significant part in the British slave trade. Its strategic location at the limit of navigation in Africa’s largest natural harbour made the island an ideal base for European slave traders. Slaves were purchased from inland traders sailing down from the interior, sold on and then shipped to the Caribbean and the American South…Matthew Oldfield
Sierra Leone
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Upper Guinea was very instrumental in the transport of slaves to the new world.
Sierra Leone is included in this region; European settlers travelled to Sierra Leone and in 1495 built forts for this sole purpose.
Later, the Dutch and French followed suit. In 1562, the English initiated the Triangle Trade.
