Hottentot Venus a novel
"Born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1789, Sarah Baartman was taken to London at the age of twenty by an English surgeon, who promised her fame and fortune. Dubbed the ₃Hottentot Venus, ₄ she was paraded naked in Piccadilly in a freak-show exhibition and subjected to the unabashed...
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New York, NY
Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
2003.
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