She was not a spectacle. She was a woman.
Sarah Baartman was kidnapped by colonial cruelty, put on display for profit, and denied dignity even in death—her body exhibited for over 100 years.
Her return home in 2002 wasn’t just repatriation. It was restoration.
Remember her not for how she was exploited, but for what her story exposes: the violence of racism, the theft of humanity, and the long road to justice.
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