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Bookmark or Share- Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home - BBCWitness History. Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home. The campaign to return Sarah Baartman to South Africa nearly 200 years after her death
- Sarah Baartman | Biography & Facts | BritannicaSarah 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.
- Sarah Baartman - WikipediaSarah 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 ...
- The significance of Sarah Baartman - BBC NewsBBC 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...
- (Sara) Saartjie Baartman (1789-1815) - BlackpastSaartjie (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.
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