‘For the liberated slaves, Freetown was an emblem of the possibility of self-governance, ownership and dignity, which was denied to them under the yoke of slavery,’ wrote the late Akintola J.G. Wyse, ...

The history of Bunce Island – Bunce Island, in Sierra Leone, was a British slave trading post in the 18th century. From its shores, tens of thousands of Africans were forcefully shipped to the ...

On 10 May 2019, the Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs of Sierra Leone, H.E. Ms. Memunatu Pratt, paid tribute to the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade at the Ark of Return.

Analysis - Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed slaves who were returned to Africa by British members of the movement to end slavery. Founded in ...

Emma Christopher, who's written extensively on the Atlantic slave trade and teaches at the University of Sydney, found herself connecting a remote chiefdom in Sierra Leone with a small Afro-Cuban ...

He further claimed that GRV’s grandfather never went to any University before being called to the Bar and that he descended from a family of Sierra Leonian slaves. FFK wrote, “History is ...

Some former slave ports in Africa are now tourist destinations, but not Bunce Island in Sierra Leone. It's abandoned and its slave castle is in ruins. The British established Bunce Island as a ...

The ivy-clad ruins perched on a strip of mud in the Sierra Leone river hide a dark past, ... a U.S.-based Sierra Leonean planning slave-history trips to Bunce Island for Americans.

Sierra Leone’s rich history is testament to that. The founding of Sierra Leone The Atlantic Slave Trade began around the 1520s, but the area around Sierra Leone was not a major contributor to ...