World,s most civilized persons do very uneven thing to women

The world's unlucky woman is Sarah Bartman or Sarah Bartman of South Africa. World's most unlucky woman Sara Bartman

An unfortunate woman had no luck to bury her shroud even 192 years after her death.




Sarah Bartman was born in 1789 in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Born in South Africa’s Eastern Cape in 1789 in a cattle-herding Gonaquasub group of the Khoikhoi, she was introduced quite early to misery and loneliness. When she was two, she lost her mother, while her father passed away when she reached 13. She would later go on to marry a Khoikhoi man and have a child with him.

Unfortunately, it appears that family affection was never in her fate. Her child died shortly after birth, and when she was 16 years old, her village witnessed an attack by Dutch colonists, which claimed the life of her husband. Sarah was enslaved soon after.

After being enslaved, she was taken to Cape Town as a domestic servant. There, she caught the attention of an English surgeon named William Dunlop, because of her unusually large bottom:

Her mother died when she was 2 years old and her father died when she was 4 years old.








Sarah Bartman's body was very unformed. Her buttocks were extremely large and as she grew her buttocks became much larger than her body.







Because South Africa was a slave to the British at that time, an Englishman William Dunlop felt that if he would take Sarah Bartman to London and organize the show, 

Dunlop saw an opportunity to make money off the young Khoi woman’s figure, and came up with a contract which stated that she would be taken to England to work as a domestic servant and to be “exhibited” for entertainment purposes. She was also promised a portion of earnings’ from her exhibitions and be allowed to return to South Africa after five years. She ended up signing it, which appears quite dubious as she was illiterate.

However, when she arrived in England, nothing was like how it was promised to her. In her exhibitions, she wore an item of skin-tight, flesh-colored clothing, as well as beads and feathers, and smoked a pipe.

Sarah Bartman's show became famous as soon as Sarah Bartman's first show took place at Piccadilly Circus in London, as her owner bought her and brought her to London so wealthy customers could also organize her own private show at their homes and their guests Were allowed to touch it.

Not all people who learned about her were in awe with her figure though. She had also caught the eye of some English abolitionists who sought to free her from this absolutely demeaning treatment by taking Dunlop to the court because she was being forced to perform in the circus against her will. However, the contract she had allegedly signed with him was produced in front of the jury, which made them reject the abolitionists’ appeal.

After the case, the popularity of her shows began to fade away, which compelled Dunlop to take Sarah to Paris where he sold her to S. Reaux, an animal trainer. This is where things got even worse.

Reaux would display her around Paris in a cage, alongside a baby rhinoceros, and make her sit and stand in a way how circus animals are ordered to. At times, she would wear nothing more than a tan loincloth, and that too to cover what was considered sacred in her culture. Her life had finally been reduced to that of an animal, and she later took to drinking and smoking to cope up with the spirit-breaking the treatment she was receiving.

In apartheid Britain, Sarah Bartman's physical unformed body was heavily mocked and cartoons of her unformed body were mocked in many newspapers.








Then in 1807, the British Empire abolished the slave trade, after which the owner of Sarah Bartman sold it to a circus in France and he also held a performance show in the same way as the French circus.




In France, Sarah Bartman died during a stage show at the age of just 26 in Paris. But see sadly, even after his death, the stage show's program was not canceled but continued uninterrupted.




But what the so-called educated progressive and enlightened Frenchmen did to Sarah Bartman's body even after she died was in itself the biggest joke of humanity, which led to Sarah Butt Man being called the unlucky woman in the world.

Now, prominent French naturalist, Georges Cuvier, would request Reaux to let him study Bartmaan for ‘scientific purposes’, to which the latter agreed. For days, she was the subject of some so-called ‘scientific paintings’, which in reality were a major factor in the foundation of scientific racism, a pseudo-scientific belief that justified racism.

In his ‘observations’ he is noted to have compared her movements with those of a monkey. He also wanted to study her genitals, to confirm the presence of an elongated Labia, to support this theory that “the more primitive the mammal, the more pronounced are the sexual organs”. However, she would never pose fully naked as she considered it beneath her dignity. Neither had she ever done so in any of her exhibitions.

Finally in 1815, at the age of 26, Sarah Baartman took her last breath, marking an end to her sufferings. But was it also the end of her humiliation?

No.

After her death, Cuvier obtained Baartman’s body and performed a highly invasive and highly sexual examination on her corpse. Her bones were boiled, and her brain and genitals were removed. Cuvier finally had the evidence of an elongated Labia as well, an observation he used to spin the narrative of scientific racism which contributed to the enslavement and exploitation of a whole continent.

After her death, her large buttocks were preserved and kept in Formaline and kept in a museum, as well as her genitals were filled with Formalin in jars for display because her genitals were much larger than normal women.

This isn’t the only posthumous cruelty he inflicted upon her though. Before her dissection, he had a plaster cast of her body made, which he later put on display alongside her skeleton, brain, and genitals at the Museum of Man, Paris.

Not only this, but a plaster cast of Sarah Bartman's body was also made and kept for display in the same museum.








Think that a woman would not have been insulted in this way anywhere after death.




Then when Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa in 1994, he requested the French government to repatriate the remains of Sarah Bartman's limbs and its plaster cast.








After the relentless efforts of Nelson Mandela, the French government finally agreed and in March 2002 all the remains of Sara Wartman's body and its plaster cast were handed over to South Africa, and a total of 192 years after the death of Sarah Wertman, her birthplace was Eastern. Burial with state honors in Cape Province.




Many films have also been made in Hollywood on top of Sarah Wortman. The film Black Vince and The Life and Time of Sara and Man is quite a superhit.


Today, Sarah Wertman has become an icon not only in South Africa but across Africa.

A vessel of South Africa is also named after him. Also on 8 December 2018, the University of Cape Town has decided to rename its Memorial Hall to Sarah Bartman Hall