Sangareya Bay

Sangareya Bay opens onto the mangrove-lined rivers of the Upper Guinea coast. Nearby, the Rio Pongo joined an older exchange between coastal Baga communities and the Fula of the interior. At the end of the eighteenth century European and Afro-European traders established themselves near its mouth, and the river became a major outlet for the Atlantic trade in captive people. Merchants and local chiefs resisted attempts by the Sierra Leone Company to take control of the commerce and oppose the slave trade.