
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


To mark 400 years since the arrival of African slaves to America, David Olusoga reflects on the life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta. As a young Dahomeyan girl called Ina, she was sold into slavery and, in an extraordinary twist of fate, was gifted to Queen Victoria and became her goddaughter Sarah Forbes Bonetta.
Producer Neil McCarthy
By BBC Radio 34.2
8282 ratings
To mark 400 years since the arrival of African slaves to America, David Olusoga reflects on the life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta. As a young Dahomeyan girl called Ina, she was sold into slavery and, in an extraordinary twist of fate, was gifted to Queen Victoria and became her goddaughter Sarah Forbes Bonetta.
Producer Neil McCarthy

7,648 Listeners

146 Listeners

1,046 Listeners

5,512 Listeners

1,796 Listeners

294 Listeners

1,755 Listeners

1,053 Listeners

1,919 Listeners

492 Listeners

584 Listeners

69 Listeners

408 Listeners

306 Listeners

759 Listeners

853 Listeners

128 Listeners

79 Listeners

244 Listeners

62 Listeners

52 Listeners

182 Listeners

4,160 Listeners

3,166 Listeners