A group of historians, archaeologists, and concerned citizens is transforming Sierra Leone’s Bunce Island castle into a museum exploring the transatlantic slave trade.
By
Paige McClanahan,
Correspondent /
August 5, 2011
Bunce Island, Sierra Leone
For nearly 140 years, this tiny scrap of an island on West Africa’s Atlantic coast was the point of no return for hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who were stolen from their homes and sold … (View original article)