Baartman, Sarah

has biography | a une biographie: Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited in Europe as a racist and voyeuristic attraction. Baartman spent her early childhood on farms in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the period of Dutch colonial rule. In 1810, Baartman was taken - potentially by force - to London by Scottish military surgeon Alexander Dunlop and Hendrik Cesars. She was then subject to cruel racist exhibitions across Europe for the next five years, including by the French scientist and racial theorist Georges Cuvier in 1815.

Baartman died in 1815, but her body was subjected to further scientific experimentation, abuse and violence after her passing. Cuvier later dissected Baartman's body and preserved her remains in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Her remains stayed in France until they were repatriated and buried in South Africa in 2002, after a request made by Nelson Mandela to the French government in 1994.
was born | est né: 1789
died in | est mort par: 26 December 1815
has nationality | a la nationalité: South Africa

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Claude Blanckaert, ed., La Vénus hottentote: Entre Barnum et Muséum (Paris: Publications scientifiques du Muséum, 2013); Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009)