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African Queen

by Rachel Holmes

2007 176 pages eng

Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810--hailed as "the Hottentot Venus" for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fam…

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