Hottentot Venus
by Barbara Chase-Riboud"Born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1789, Sarah Baartman was taken to London at the age of twenty by an English surgeon, who promised her fame and fortune. Dubbed the ₃Hottentot Venus,₄ she was paraded naked in Piccadilly in a freak-show exhibition and subjected to the unabashed stares and crude comments of the British public, which resulted in a sensational trial for her custody by...
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Anchor
Format
336 pages
ISBN
9781400032082
Language
English
Features
Full color, 336 pages
Genres
South Africans, Khoikhoi Women, Black Women, Racism, Fiction
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