For those who don’t know who she is: Sarah
"Saartjie" Baartman (before 1790 – 29 December 1815)[1] (also
spelled Bartman, Bartmann, Baartmen) was the most famous of at least two[2] Khoikhoi women
who were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under
the name Hottentot Venus—"Hottentot" as the then-current name for the
Khoi people, now considered an offensive
term,[3] and
"Venus" in reference to the Roman
goddess of love.Saartjie was a woman whose large buttocks brought her
questionable fame and caused her to spend much of her life being poked and
prodded as a sexual object in a freak showAccording 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.
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.
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