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Sarah Forbes Bonetta: The Yoruba Slave Who Became Queen Victoria Of England G by Theprogenitor2: 8:47am On May 22, 2020
Sarah Forbes Bonetta, born in West Africa of Yoruba descent, was captured in 1848, at the age of five, during the Okeadon War. King Gezo of Dahomy captured the city of Okeadon, sacrificing many inhabitants and leading the rest away into slavery. While her family were killed in the war, as the daughter of an African chief, Sarah was kept in captivity as a state prisoner, either to be presented to an important visitor, or to be sacrificed at the death of a minister or official to become his attendant in the next world.
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