Race and Erasure: Sara Baartman and Hendrik Cesars in Cape ... - Cambridge

Cesars, a man from Cape Town. He displayed Baartman as “the Hottentot Venus,” a marvel of nature, if a freakish one, whose large bottom and “Hottentot” iden-tity made the suffix of “Venus” supposedly a joke.1 Alexander Dunlop was the organizer. Cesars’s display of Baartman particularly outraged some members of the anti- ................
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