Sarah Baartman also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as a ...
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Sarah Baartman
Sarah Baartman, also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje, or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that... Wikipedia
Born: 1789, Camdeboo Local Municipality, South Africa
Died: December 29, 1815 (age 26 years), Paris, France
Resting place: Vergaderingskop, Hankey, Eastern Cape, South Africa; 33°50′14″S 24°53′05″E / 33.8372°S 24.8848°E
Full name: Saartjie Baartman
Other names: Hottentot Venus, Saartjie Baartman
She became the object of scientific and medical research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality. When she died in 1816, the ...