Anjola

Anjola

Sarah Forbes Bonetta

Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a Yoruba princess of the Egbado clan, is best known as Queen Victoria of Great Britain’s goddaughter. Bonetta was born in what is now southwest Nigeria around 1843. Her parents’ identities are unknown, as are the names…

Carlotta Lucumi “La Negra Carlota”

Carlota Lucumi, a kidnapped African lady, was a slave insurrection leader at the Triunvirato farm in Mantanzas, Cuba. Carlota was a free African-born woman from the West African Kingdom of Benin. Her surname, Lucumi, is derived from her ethnic group,…