Dido Elizabeth Belle and Sarah Forbes Bonetta
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
King Gazeo and the Bonetta
Aina was in shock and almost catatonic for the long 60 mile journey back through the jungle to Captain Forbes's ship, the Bonetta. The women outfitted her with a wardrobe of English style dresses, stockings, shoes, bonnets, gloves, and leather slippers. Aina was given to this whole other set of strange men after the sheer terror of the day she had been held captive by King Gazeo. She would go on to become one of England's most famous seamen.
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