Sarah Saartijie Baartman was one of the first black women known to be subjected to human sexual trafficking.
She is an African woman exhibited as a freak attraction due to her prominent buttocks.
Her tragic history is proof of how cruel humanity has been to those with less power.
According to information gathered Sarah Baartman was born in 1789, near the Gamtoos River, Xhosa kingdom now in Eastern Cape, South Africa, and died in 1815, in Paris, France.
She was enslaved and taken to Europe, where her body was put on show for paying audiences.
Sarah Baartman was only 20 years old when she was taken away under pretenses by a British ship.
In London, she was displayed as a freak show fascination. In 1814 she was sold to an animal trainer in France, where she died barely a year later of disease and homesickness.
There are facts that she had two children, though both died as babies. She had a relationship with a poor Dutch soldier.
