Saartje Baartman, also known as The Hottentot Venus

Saartje ('Sarah') Baartman (1789-1815), also known as The Hottentot Venus - an African servant girl from South Africa's Eastern Cape of the Khoisan tribe brought to London in 1810 and exhibited at freak shows and private events there and in Paris, where she died 1815. Sections of her body were preserved and (controversially) displayed at Paris's Museum of Man until 1974. Her remains were finally repartriated to South Africa and re-interred in 2002

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