page_title: Sara Forbes Bonetta
hierarchical_section_title: Sara Forbes Bonetta
caption_attribution_description: Yoruba princess Sara Forbes Bonetta
context_page_description: Sara Forbes Bonetta, otherwise spelled Sarah, was a West African Egbado princess of the Yoruba people 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 Victoria. She was married to Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Victorian Lagos philanthropist.
context_section_description: Sara Forbes Bonetta, otherwise spelled Sarah (born Omoba Aina; 1843 – 15 August 1880), was a West African Egbado princess of the Yoruba people 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 Victoria. She was married to Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Victorian Lagos philanthropist.
caption: Sara Forbes Bonetta photographed by Camille Silvy in 1862
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