Bunce Island lies in the Sierra Leone river and this fortress on the island was a place where enslaved Africans were imprisoned, bought and sold between 1670 and 1807.
One of the companies that used to run Bunce Island was the Royal Africa Company whose Governor was the future Stuart King, James Duke of York.
The money earned from places like Bunce Island flowed back to London.
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