Sarah Baartman was Khoekhoe woman born in 1789 in what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. She had unusually large buttocks, possibly caused by a condition called steatopygia. She was enslaved in the 19th century and taken to Europe, where she was exhibited in front of audiences who paid to see her body.
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