An extraordinary life: descendant welcomes biography of woman ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria

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An extraordinary life: descendant welcomes biography of woman ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria

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History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

A girl called Àìná was captured by an African king and later taken to England to become Sarah Forbes Bonetta, protege of the imperial monarch

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