Bimbia Slave Trade Heritage Site

Between 1776 and 1838, approximately 2,393 people - 42% of them children - were shipped from Bimbia to North Carolina, Brazil, Guyana, and Jamaica. The site on the Atlantic shore 14km from Limbe was only formally identified in 1987 during groundwork for a new church. Community guides lead visitors through the stone holding cells, the embarkation jetty, and the mangrove forest that hid the operation from the open sea. A cannon still faces the channel toward Nicholls Island where enslaved people were held before embarkation.