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1. Sarah Baartman was a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in Europe in the early 19th century under the name "Hottentot Venus" due to her large buttocks and elongated labia. 2. She was taken first to London and then sold to a Frenchman and exhibited in Paris, where she was examined and painted nude by scientists. 3. After her death in 1815, her body was autopsied and her skeleton, genitals, and brain were displayed in a French museum for nearly two centuries bef

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