Baartman was a South African (Khoikhoin) slave women forced to Europe and displayed at freak shows as a naked entertainer. Her enlarged breast, buttock and hypertrophied labia were put on display for white audiences as she was forced to spread her legs and bend over so paying customers could look and touch similar to the black female slaves at auctions while white owners. Baartman’s stage name was “Hottentot Venus”-hottentot is an offensive Dutch word used to refer to khoisans , which was used to symbolize the abnormality, freakish sexuality to nature and inferiority of the African race. After years of sexual torture and prostitution she died at the young age of 25. Her body was dissected and put on display at a French Museum not until 2002 when it was buried in her
Baartman was a South African (Khoikhoin) slave women forced to Europe and displayed at freak shows as a naked entertainer. Her enlarged breast, buttock and hypertrophied labia were put on display for white audiences as she was forced to spread her legs and bend over so paying customers could look and touch similar to the black female slaves at auctions while white owners. Baartman’s stage name was “Hottentot Venus”-hottentot is an offensive Dutch word used to refer to khoisans , which was used to symbolize the abnormality, freakish sexuality to nature and inferiority of the African race. After years of sexual torture and prostitution she died at the young age of 25. Her body was dissected and put on display at a French Museum not until 2002 when it was buried in her