00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862036560 Buklod 20161202094613.0 g||| | || || ta 161202s2003 nyu r |000 1|eng d 0385508565 (iLib)UPBAG-00022622780 OLC BAG rda eng PS 3553 H336 H68 2003 Chase-Riboud, Barbara author. Hottentot Venus a novel Barbara Chase-Riboud. New York, NY Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. 2003. 320 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "November 2003." "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 stares and crude comments of the British public, which resulted in a sensational trial for her custody by British abolitionists."--Cover. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PS 3553 H336 H68 2003 Book