Correcting Identities.

#IrememberOurHistory® would like to set the truth for all who seek the truth about these two (2) Black women. We do ask that you share this post, so that people who see it will learn the truth about these two women.

Every few months people on social media spread posts with the woman on the left of our photo collage, and say it's Phyllis Wheatley, but it is Not Phyllis Wheatley.

The woman on the left of our image is Omoba Aina, renamed Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies.
Phyllis Wheatley is the image on the right.

While it is great and wonderful that people want to spread American History and Black History, it is quite damaging to spread false Black History and false American History, and be told it's wrong yet not change the information posted,
as we see happening too often.

Also, photography had not been invented during the time Phyllis Wheatley was alive. Which is why there is an engraved image of her in her book of poetry.

So we are making sure that when people take the time to search about either Phyllis Wheatley or Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies, they will have our post be part of the search results.
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Collage description:

Left image -Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies, who was a West African Yoruba princess, born into a Royal West African dynasty. At the age of 5 years old she was captured by the King of Dahomey in 1848 during a “slave-hunt” war in which her parents were killed.

In 1850, when she was around seven/eight years old, she was "rescued" by Captain Frederick E Forbes of the Royal Navy while he was visiting Dahomey as an emissary of the British Government.
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Forbes convinced King Ghezo of Dahomey to give Sarah to Queen Victoria saying: “She would be a present from the King of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites.”

She was enslaved again and was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria as a "gift".

The young girl was subsequently given the name Forbes as well as that of his ship, the ‘Bonetta’. Queen Victoria made Sarah her god daughter.
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Right image - Phyllis Wheatley who was an enslaved Black woman and a poet. This is her published book of poems with an image of her.

She was born in West Africa, and was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight years old. She was transported to North America, where she was bought at a slave auction by the Wheatley family of Boston.

After she learned to read and write, they encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.

Photo credit: by Kevin Grady for Radcliffe Institute courtesy of Schlesinger Library.