Portrait of Omoba Aina later know as Sara Forbes Bonetta and Sara Davies. God-daughter to Queen Victoria and former slave liberated by the Royal Navy

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Sara Forbes Bonetta, (born Omoba Aina; 1843 – 15 August 1880), was an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people in West Africa who was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey and later became the slave of King Ghezo of Dahomey. In a remarkable twist of events, she was liberated from slavery by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the British Royal Navy and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria. She was married to Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Lagos philanthropist.

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Size: 4960px × 4646px
Photo credit: © photo-fox / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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