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Fort James Island


TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.0 of 5 stars
Traveler Description: Former colonial fort linked to the control of the slave trading routes.
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Attraction type: Historic site
Address: James Island
Juffureh
Gambia

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3 of 5 stars
Muesli   1 contribution
Pembrokeshire
Dec 5, 2006

A strange eerie place, not much to see as it is all in ruins and the island has much diminished in size. None the less, its very bleakness, crumbling walls and heavy cannon evoke its awful past. Its tooth-edged silhouette rises from the river as a grim reminder of former inhumanities when slavery was deemed acceptable . more

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James Island | Juffureh, Gambia