Mr. Imhotep - Do you know the story of Sara Baartman?! Sexism - During 1814–70, there were at least seven scientific descriptions of the bodies of Black women done in comparative anatomy.
![Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0040085/full/full/0/default.jpg)
Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to
African History Archive - THE TRAGIC STORY OF AN AFRICAN WOMAN, SARA BAARTMAN and the hard life she went through from European colonists.☹ Sara's life was of hardship. It is speculated she
![The 1816 complete cast in plaster of Saartjie Baartman is displayed during a ceremony at the South African Embassy in Paris April 29, 2002, in preparation for Baartman's remains return to South The 1816 complete cast in plaster of Saartjie Baartman is displayed during a ceremony at the South African Embassy in Paris April 29, 2002, in preparation for Baartman's remains return to South](https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/2d3e4rj/the-1816-complete-cast-in-plaster-of-saartjie-baartman-is-displayed-during-a-ceremony-at-the-south-african-embassy-in-paris-april-29-2002-in-preparation-for-baartmans-remains-to-be-returned-to-south-africa-in-early-may-for-burial-the-indigenous-woman-born-in-1789-was-taken-to-london-by-a-british-navy-doctor-around-1810-where-she-was-shown-off-in-freak-shows-as-the-hottentot-venus-after-she-died-her-cast-skeleton-brain-and-other-organs-were-preserved-and-displayed-at-the-museum-of-mankind-in-paris-reuterscharles-platiau-cp-2d3e4rj.jpg)
The 1816 complete cast in plaster of Saartjie Baartman is displayed during a ceremony at the South African Embassy in Paris April 29, 2002, in preparation for Baartman's remains return to South
The Queen Code - In honor of Black History Month... Today we pay our respects to Sarah Baartman whose tragic story reminds us that the exploitation of the Black feminine physique started
Saartje Baartman : her life, her remains, and the negotiations for their repatriation from France to South Africa : news &
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