Hottentot Venus

Barbara Chase-Riboud

earliest edition we have, 2003 Recorded Books, 2009 audiobook

"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 abolitionis...

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Hottentot Venus audiobook · 2009 · Recorded Books · 9781440748165
Hottentot Venus paperback · 2004 · Anchor · 336 pages · 9781400032082
Hottentot Venus audiobook · 2004 · Recorded Books
Hottentot Venus edition · 2003 · Doubleday · 320 pages

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