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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 name that was later attributed to at least one other woman similarly exhibited.
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  2. 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 ...

  3. Sep 26, 2024 · Sarah Baartman (born 1789, near the Gamtoos River, Xhosa kingdom [now in Eastern Cape, South Africa]—died 1815, Paris, France) was an African woman who was enslaved and taken to Europe, where her body was put on display for paying audiences.

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  4. Jan 7, 2016 · It's 200 years since the death of Sarah Baartman. Her terrible treatment remains emblematic of 19th Century racism.

  5. Mar 29, 2012 · Sarah was a slave of Dutch farmers near Cape Town when Hendrick Cezar, the brother of her slave owner and British ship’s doctor William Dunlop, suggested that she travel to England for an exhibition, promising her that she would become wealthy.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group of the Khoikhoi. Sara grew up on a colonial farm where her family most probably worked as servants.

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