Published on Feb 8, 2014
Story of sara Baartman daughter of south Africa.
Link: https://youtu.be/kX7Qos9myWc
I was reading about Venus Williams and the racial slurs made about her and they said she draws comparison to this other Venus, Sarah Baartman, the hot and tot Venus
Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman (before 1790 – 29 December 1815) (also spelled Bartman, Bartmann, Baartmen) was the most famous of at least two Khoikhoi women who, due to their large buttocks (steatopygia), were exhibited asfreak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus—"Hottentot" was the then current name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term,[and "Venus" in reference to the Roman goddess of love.
According to popular history, Saartjie Baartman (more commonly known as Sarah or Sara Baartman) was born in 1789 in the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa. When she was barely in her 20s, she was sold to London by an enterprising Scottish doctor named Alexander Dunlop, accompanied by a showman named Hendrik Cesars. She spent four years in Britain being exhibited for her large buttocks (steatopygia). Her treatment caught the attention of British abolitionists, who tried to rescue her, but she claimed that she had come to London on her own accord. In 1814, after Dunlop's death, she traveled to Paris. With two consecutive showmen, Henry Taylor and S. Reaux, she amused onlookers who frequented the Palais-Royal. She was subjected to examination by Georges Cuvier, a professor of comparative anatomy at the Museum of Natural History. In post-Napoleonic France, sideshows like the Hottentot Venus lost their appeal. Baartman lived on in poverty, and died in Paris of an undetermined inflammatory disease in December 1815. After her death, Cuvier dissected her body, then displayed her remains. For more than a century and a half, visitors to the Museum of Man in Paris could view her brain, skeleton and genitalia until she was buried.
1810 caricature of Baartman byWilliam Heath
| Saartjie Baartman | |
|---|---|
La Belle Hottentot, a 19th century French print of Baartman
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| Born | 1789[1] Near Gamtoos River, Eastern Cape, Dutch Cape Colony |
| Died | December 29, 1815 (aged 25–26) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Vergaderingskop, Hankey, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
| Other names | Hottentot Venus |
| Ethnicity | Khoikhoi |
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