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Niara Bely (1790 – 1879)
Also known as Elizabeth Bailey Gomez, she was a Luso-African queen who became a prominent businesswoman in nineteenth-century Guinea. She was active in the slave trade in Farenya, Guinea.
She studied in Liverpool where she adopted the name Elizabeth.
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