“This is the official last door of no return,” Peter Momoh Bassie, a tour guide with Tourism Is Life, says as we’re standing on Bunce Island in Sierra Leone. “People taken from all over Africa would ...
Bunce Island, which operated in Sierra Leone for nearly 140 years, was one of about 40 large commercial forts Europeans built on the coast of West Africa to facilitate the transatlantic slave trade, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Donor notes read: "Northeast complex, Building 2A as seend from the north; Ruins at Bunce Island Fort. Trip to Bunce Island with Joe Opala and ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Donor notes read: "Bunce Island Jetty (Rod is three feet); note the cannon; Ruins at Bunce Island Fort. Trip to Bunce Island with Joe Opala and ...
BUNCE ISLAND, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - The ivy-clad ruins perched on a strip of mud in the Sierra Leone river hide a dark past, but have become an unlikely symbol of hope for many African Americans ...