Abena Bótwe Oyoko

Oheneba Abena Bótwe Oyoko (January 5, 1780 - October 20, 1895) was the second daughter of Asantehene Osei Kwadwo, the 4th King of the Asante Empire. 
In 1793, Abena was kidnapped and traded to British slavers in Anomabu, a coastal trading post. She was brought to America, where she was purchased by John Vaden Jr., a plantation owner from Chesterfield County, Virginia. She worked in the kitchen and was a nanny for Vaden's wife Hannah and her two sons. Abena lived in the big house but she was not far removed from cruelty, as Hannah frequently berated and physically abused her for the smallest of inconveniences. At the age of 14, just one year after coming to the Vaden's home, Abena was raped by Mr. Vaden which resulted in her pregnancy.
Abena gave birth to a son, Theodore, in June 1794; her second son, Leonard, was born October 1796. Both of her children were named by Hannah after Abena originally gave them names from her native Ghana. 
Abena died peacefully in her sleep on October 20, 1895 in her home in New York.