Sierra Leone: Efforts to preserve slave trade history

A national organisation in Sierra Leone is looking to raise funds and awareness to preserve what was once the country's biggest slave trade port.

The station on Bunce Island was set up 350 years ago to ship thousands of Africans to the Americas.

Al Jazeera’s Nina Devries reports from Bunce Island.

[motowninvestor]

My family is from South Carolina, some of the African dialect was still spoken about 50 years ago, but not so much these days. I remember a few words spoken from my Grandmother.

[kimoykalinago]

its stories like THIS why I love this news channel you simply don't get to hear these stories anywhere else I LOVE YOU ALJAZEERA

[lyndawilliams]

If you dont remember history you risk making the same mistakes again.

[aniyunwiyahniitsitapi]

This story is told in reverse at the very beginning of the video. About 1821, is when they shipped indigenous Copper-colored people TO Sierra Leonne FROM the Americas and Carribeans.

[mrs.g]

My family is Dominican & I did an ancestry DNA test. It urns our ancestors are from this area. We knew Taino blood was wiped out & if you look at my family we look black and mixed white/black. It’s so neat to start learning more about our African roots.

[moniquewalker]

Very informative very interesting part of our history

[theresasober]

I need some information about the slaves e that their bring to St l Lucia in the year18+ year thank you

[teemadarif]

Are they telling you how "Indians" was brought there from the americas and then sold off to elsewhere. Did they tell you that Sierra Leone was not called Sierra Leone in the beginning and how free black and brown Americans was sent there ? The same was done with Liberia. They are us and we are them. Been coming back and forth for thousands of years.

[motowninvestor]

Alcohol under the Context of the Atlantic Slave Trade
THEY TRADED US FOR 2 BOTTLES OF SCHNAPPS:
"Of the nearly 1.2 million captives shipped from this port town during 1710-1830 alone, 33% have been estimated as purchased through the importation of alcoholic drinks."

[kwameasante]

Well I just visited Bunch island Saturday. They have cleaned off bush and weeds

[willfriar]

We must remember to preserve history. All history is important. That's why Isis went and destroyed the city of Palmyra one of the oldest in the world. Because there is no history but Islam there is no way but Islam. And Islam support slavery. Do not ever forget the Arab slave trade marching people from the Congo all the way across the Sahara to Baghdad. They called them Caravans. Thousands of people died every trip. Do not forget slavery it's your history Africa. Do not forget Arab slavery it's going on today in Libya you can buy a man for $200 in the market. Such is Islam. Slavery get used to it it's coming back

[gazof-the-north]

I thought it was the remains of the Ford Sierra factory from the

[davidisrael]

We went into captivity because we rebelled against our God. The God of the israelites GOD Chosen peoples According the curses of Deuteronomy 28