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The Story Of A Yoruba Slave Girl Turned Victorian Aristocract(pictures) by TheNewsDigest: 5:32pm On May 20, 2018
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NEWS DIGEST – Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies, a
Yoruba girl from Egbado in present day Ogun State,
whose original name was Aina, was captured by the
King Gezo of Dahomey in 1848 during a “slave-
hunt” war in which her parents were killed.
In 1850, when she was around seven years old, she
was rescued by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the
Royal Navy while he was visiting Dahomey as an
emissary of the British Government.

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Re: The Story Of A Yoruba Slave Girl Turned Victorian Aristocract(pictures) by Nobody: 5:42pm On May 20, 2018
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The story isn't what me copying and pasting here for others so I will pass
Re: The Story Of A Yoruba Slave Girl Turned Victorian Aristocract(pictures) by RedboneSmith(m): 4:11am On May 21, 2018
LOL! Yet again?!

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