The Painful Story of Sarah Baartman After reading her story you will rethink about those who call themselves the champions of human rights. Let's start and hold your nerves! Who was Sarah Baartman? Sarah Baartman (sometimes spelled as Sara Baartman) was a young Black woman born in South Africa around the year 1789. She belonged to the Khoikhoi tribe, an indigenous group living in southern Africa. She had a unique body structure, especially very large hips and buttocks, a condition known as steatopygia (a natural genetic trait common in her tribe). But instead of respecting her as a human being, some Europeans treated her like a strange object or a curiosity. How did she end up in Europe? Sarah was taken from South Africa to Europe in 1810 when she was around only 20 years old and most historians write she was tricked and forced. Two evil men — a British doctor named William Dunlop and a showman named Hendrik Cesars — took her to London and then to France. They...
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