Bunce Island, Sierra Leone

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Bunce Island was established as a major slave trading fortress and castle in 1670, is locate approximately twenty miles upriver in the Freetown Harbor on the Sierra Leone River. Bunce Island is a small piece of land measuring just 1700 feet long and 300 feet wide. Built in the 17th century, Bunce IslandÂ’s old structures capture the past in the present. Walk along the old fort wall or through the slave quarters. Canons from a variety of ages still grace the walls.

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