At Her Majesty's Request
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| Originally published | 1999 |
| Authors | Walter Dean Myers |
| Genres | Biography |
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| ID | 1293477 |
About At Her Majesty's Request
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 Dahomian King Gezo to offer the girl as a gift to Queen Victoria instead. . . .
