TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe’s Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter.

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