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The terrible history of Sarah Bartman and how she was a human exhibit in a freak show because she had a big butt
The terrible history of Sarah Bartman and how she was a human exhibit in a freak show because she had a big butt Two centuries ago Sarah Baartman a South African national d¡ed after years spent in European "freak shows". Sarah Baartman d¡ed on 29 December 1815, but her exhibition continued. Her brain, skeleton and se.xual organs remained on display in a Paris museum until 1974. Her remains weren't repatriated and buried until 2002. Brought to Europe seemingly on false pretences by a British doctor, stage-named the "Hottentot Venus", she was paraded around "freak shows" in London and Paris, with crowds invited to look at her large b.uttocks. Baartman's life was one of huge hardship. It is thought she was born in South Africa's Eastern Cape in 1789, her mother died when she was two and her father, a cattle driver, d¡ed when she was an adolescent. She entered domestic service in Cape Town after a Dutch colonist murdered her partner, with whom she