January 2011
20 posts
TCLx: Tragic Venus circa 1789 - 1 January 1816 →
tclx:
Saartjie Baartman was born in 1789 into the Griqua tribe of the eastern Cape, a subgroup of the Khoisan people who are now thought to be the first aboriginal inhabitants of the southern tip of Africa. Her family moved to a shack near Cape Town and, while working as a 20-year-old servant to a…
