page_title: Sarah Baartman
hierarchical_section_title: Sarah Baartman
caption_attribution_description: English: 19th century French print "La Belle Hottentot" of Saartjie Baartman. This book is one of many academic references to it: https://books.google.com/books?id=KnkLuVWjPzUC&amp;pg=PA12
context_page_description: Sara Baartman was the best known of at least two South African Khoikhoi women who, due to the European objectification of their buttocks, were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus—"Hottentot" was the name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term, and "Venus" referred to the Roman goddess of love and fertility.
context_section_description: Sara Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; also spelled Sarah, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje ([ˈsɑːrtʃi]), or Saartjie and Bartman, Bartmann; 1789 – 29 December 1815) was the best known of at least two South African Khoikhoi women who, due to the European objectification of their buttocks, were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus—"Hottentot" was the name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term, and "Venus" referred to the Roman goddess of love and fertility.
caption: La Belle Hottentot, a 19th-century French print of Baartman
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