Sarah Forbes Bonetta

Sarah Forbes Bonetta

Sarah Forbes Bonetta was an admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo Empire. She was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queen’s Goddaughter.

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