Two More Stages:
The Interiors and Human Figures

The last stage in the project will be to create animated human figures representing the people who inhabited the castle -- the British slave traders and their African workers; the slave merchants who came to the castle with captives and goods to sell; a visiting slave ship captain and his crew; the local African king who came to the castle once a year to collect his rent; and the enslaved men, women and children imprisoned in Bunce Island's open-air "slave yards." We have contacted human figure animators who can do this highly technical work, including a computer consulting firm in Sierra Leone, called "SBTS Group." But this final stage is very labor-intensive, and we will not be able to complete it without more donor contributions. If we can finish this project, viewers will be able to click their way into every building on Bunce Island and see every aspect of the slave trade as it went on there 200 years ago.

We will create a unique educational resource that will be available online and in libraries and used in books, documentary films, and museum exhibits. Our goal is to present the Atlantic slave trade in an almost photo-realistic way, so that modern viewers will be able to grasp its impact and meaning as never before.