Photos: Meet The Yoruba Slave Who Became A Goddaughter To The Queen Of England

Photos: Meet The Yoruba Slave Who Became A Goddaughter To The Queen Of England

Lady Sara

Forbes Bonetta (1843-1880) was a Yoruba woman, Egbado Omoba who was orphaned in intertribal warfare, sold into slavery, and in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement, and became a goddaughter to Queen of England, Queen Victoria.