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Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c.1789– 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈsɑːrtʃi]), 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 ...
Jan 7, 2016 · BBC News Magazine. Two centuries ago Sarah Baartman died after years spent in European "freak shows". Now rumours over a possible Hollywood film about Baartman's life have sparked...
Apr 5, 2024 · Sarah Baartman (born 1789, near the Gamtoos River, Xhosa kingdom [now in Eastern Cape, South Africa]—died 1815, Paris, France) African woman who was enslaved and taken to Europe, where her body was put on display for paying audiences.
Sep 22, 2018 · Saartjie (Sara) Baartman was one of the first black women known to be subjugated to human sexual trafficking. She was derisively named the “Hottentot Venus” by Europeans as her body would be publicly examined and exposed inhumanly throughout the duration of her young life.
Jul 15, 2021 · How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women. Rokeshia Renné Ashley, FIU assistant professor of communication, wrote this piece, republished from The Conversation. Sarah Baartman was an international sensation of objectification. British Library.
Nov 17, 2021 · Born around 1789, Sarah, also known as Sara or Saartjie, Baartman was a Khoisan woman, a First Nations person from the Western Cape of South Africa. "We like to believe that we [Khoisan people] were the first human beings on Earth," says Paramount Chief Glen Taaibosch, chairperson of the Gauteng Khoi and San Council. Listen to the podcast.
Sara Baartman (also known as Saartje, Saartjie, or Sarah), a South African woman, was widely known on stage in England and France in the early 19th century, and subsequently internationally since then, as the “Hottentot Venus,” the Western racist fiction of the primitive, sexualized, black woman.
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