At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers

At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England

Walter Dean Myers

160 pages • 1999

4 editions

nonfiction biography history emotional informative fast-paced
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In 1849, a young African girl came within moments of being sacrificed in the bloody Dahomian ritual called the "watering of the graves." But Commander Frederick E. Forbes, the young British captain of the HMS Bonetta, intervened, provoking Dahomia...

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