Historic forts in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone , West Africa , there were numerous colonial forts , similar to those on the Gold Coast , today's Ghana . They were mainly used for the slave trade .

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Surname	place	Built	Status	Historical use	comment
Fort Bunce	Bunce Island	1670	preserved as a ruin	The most important transshipment point for the Royal African Company for slaves in Sierra Leone	Proposed for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List
Fort Lomboko	Various islands in the Galinas river not far from Sulima	before 1839	Destroyed in 1849	Spanish slave fort of the famous slave trader Pedro Blanco
Fort Tasso	Tasso Island	around 1660	unknown	Important hub for the slave trade of the Royal African Company; also storage facility for agricultural export products
Fort Thornton	Tower Hill in Freetown	1792	preserved in small parts	Seat of the governors	today the location of the most important state and government institutions
unknown	Drei Leuge from the village of Tanguarim not far from the mouth of the Rio Bintonbo	End of the 15th century	tore off	Portuguese fort under Dom João II
Fort York		after 1672		Slave fort of the Royal African Company

Trevor P. Hall: Before Middle Passage: Translated Portuguese Manuscripts of Atlantic Slave Trading from West Africa to Iberian Territoriers, 1513–26 , Ashgate Publishing, London / New York, 2015, ISBN 9781315568874 , pp. 39ff.
Vistas of the Heritage of Sierra Leone , Fourah Bay College , Freetown 2002.
Thomas Hugh: The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870. Simon & Schuster, New York 1997, ISBN 0-684-83565-7 .
AW Lawrence: Trade Castles and Forts of West Africa , 1964.
A General Index to the Reports from Committees of the House of Commons, 1715-1801 , House of Commons, 1803, pp. 356ff.