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  2. Sarah Baartman - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c. 1789 – 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation:), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoekhoe woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one other woman ...

  3. Black Venus (2010 film) - Wikipedia

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    Black Venus (French: Vénus noire) is a 2010 French drama film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. It is based on the life of Sarah Baartman , a Khoikhoi woman who in the early 19th century was exhibited in Europe under the name "Hottentot Venus". [ 1 ]

  4. Venus (play) - Wikipedia

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    Venus is a 1996 play written by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks about the life of Khoekhoe woman Sarah Baartman.Set during the 19th century, the play opens in South Africa where Baartman was born, before transitioning to Europe as Baartman begins to perform in freak shows in London.

  5. List of 2010 films based on actual events - Wikipedia

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    Black Venus (French: Vénus noire) (2010) – French drama film based on the life of Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman who in the early 19th century was exhibited in Europe under the name "Hottentot Venus" [19] Blood Done Sign My Name (2010) – drama film based on the autobiographical book Blood Done Sign My Name (2004) by historian Timothy ...

  6. Barbara Chase-Riboud - Wikipedia

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    Hottentot Venus: A Novel (2003) explores the life of Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited naked in freak shows in 19th-century Europe. In 1994, Chase-Riboud published The President's Daughter, a work that continued the Sally Hemings story, by imagining the life of her and Jefferson's mixed-race daughter Harriet Hemings; she and ...

  7. 'They always said 'No': Why Led Zeppelin's surviving members ...

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    The very short summary of the quartet's meet-up: Page, who'd made a name for himself in the Yardbirds, decided in 1968 to form his own band to push the envelope of British blues; John Paul Jones ...

  8. The story of two Brooklyn sisters who forged a family of firsts

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    A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.

  9. The Life and Times of Sarah Baartman - Wikipedia

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    The film concerns a woman named Sarah Baartman during colonial times. Set between 1810 and 1815, the documentary relates the true story of a 20-year-old woman travelling to London from Cape Town. A member of the Khoekhoe people, the woman was exhibited as a freak across England and became known as the Hottentot Venus. An abolitionist group ...