Bartman: Humiliated in life, living with orangutans, and becoming a specimen after deathyears
Bartman, an African woman living in the early 19th century, has an unusually unique posture, especially her high raised hips, which from behind are almost unbelievably real.
Despite being a slave living on African soil, Baartman was not discriminated against. She toiled in the slave owner's estate, and her life was difficult but peaceful.
In her spare time, she always casts envious glances at the occasional European.
They are dressed in gorgeous, clean clothes, sipping fragrant coffee, and sharing interesting stories in life. For those black-skinned slaves, this is undoubtedly a fantastic life.
Just as Bartman was immersed in this dream, she met Brother Peter.
In Africa, they were slave owners who thought they were powerful, but in the eyes of Europeans they were insignificant, because they were small and far from the big farmers and the rich.
However, they found someone who was different, and she was Bartman. They took her to Europe and planned to do a "human flesh show" as a way to make a lot of money.
Historically, the use of African performances to earn income was not the first of its kind for the Peter brothers. In Europe, such deformed performances were once very popular, the most famous of which was the "McCoy Siamese Twins".
Isn't there a sense of satisfaction that comes from snooping on the misfortunes and privacy of others? In Europe, where life is too superior, people are willing to spend a small amount of money to put on a deformed show that excites them.
Brother Peter paints a wonderful picture of European life to Bartman, telling her that she can live a prosperous and comfortable life there, enjoy a variety of food and drinks, and the standard of living is much higher than that of Africa.
This image full of ** successfully attracted Bartman, so that she was driven by her dreams and temporarily forgot about the discrimination against skin color in Europe.
As a young man, Bartman left his home country and sailed across the ocean to a city called London. However, before he could adapt to his new environment, he was immediately locked in an iron cage.
Yes, in London, Bartman lost his freedom and was treated like an "animal", except that he wore traditional African clothing.
Bartman's African Venus performance caused a frenzy among the audience, who surrounded the stage. However, all they saw was a black ** woman with huge buttocks, strong and young, with high buttocks raised.
Although the audience is curious about what lies underneath the clothing, they are asked to make various movements and even uncover the clothing directly.
Bartman struggled with humiliation, but she couldn't resist. If she didn't cooperate with the audience's performance, she could only endure the whipping. The audience ridiculed, ridiculed, and even called her "mother orangutan" directly.
They rudely teased, insulted, and used all sorts of derogatory language to describe Bartman. The Peter brothers made a lot of money through this performance, and there was an endless stream of people who came to perform at the "Animal Superstar".
Bartman spent more than a year in shame, and while they made a lot of money, she didn't get a shred of care. The Peter brothers took Bartman on their travels, visiting cities in the UK and around the world, but Bartman's life did not change, and she still had no freedom of movement and no return to her homeland.
In the process, Bartman begins to become numb to being alive.
Bartman's exhaustion and depression put her through more abuse, as she was perceived as uncooperative. This has left her health deteriorating. However, her good fortune came at that time, and someone offered to buy her.
This made the Peter brothers very happy, as they were able to get more profit from Bartman. Eventually, she became a member of a zoo in France and started a new life.
The zookeeper puts Bartman in a cage with the orangutans and treats them as animals. Influenced by the theory of evolution, the director regarded black Africans as animals, and Bartman was treated unfairly but could only suffer in silence.
In his acting career, Bartman has long forgotten his tears, and the pain in his heart is far greater than tears.
To create a captivating effect, the zookeeper encouraged Bartman to learn acrobatics and had her perform with the gorillas. As a result, she became a high-profile "animal superstar": from an imperfect individual to a wild animal.
However, this life did not last long, and the daily damage caused Bartman to stop breathing in 1815. In the last moments of her life, she was accompanied only by a few gorillas.
Bartman's death displeased the zoo's director, who was counting on making a fortune from Bartman. Just as the head of the regiment was angry, a man named Georges Cuvier came to the zoo and said that he wanted to take Bartman's body away for autopsy.
In desperation, the regiment commander could only treat Bartman's body as a useful thing, accept some money from George, and then give it up.
George was a scientific scientist who contradicted Darwin's evolutionary views and believed that humans did not originate from gorillas. In order to test his theory, George dissected Bartman's body and even publicly cut off its high buttocks in an attempt to reveal that there was no other substance in it, only fat.
However, George's real motive is utilitarian and seeks to profit in this way.
George made a fascinating specimen out of Bartman's remains, which is displayed in the museum. This specimen used to be a young and energetic teenage girl, but in just two years, she went from a living being to a shriveled specimen.
George used this specimen to elevate Europe's position in the field of human evolutionary research, and Bartman's specimen became their annual profit. By the mid-twentieth century, however, feminists began to question Bartman's specimens, but they only argued and did not reach any conclusions.
In 1981, the feminist influence reached its peak, and due to pressure from the **, the museum finally decided to remove Bartman's specimen from the exhibition. Although her specimens were properly preserved, her brain was nowhere to be found.
By 1994, Africans began to demand that Bartman's body be returned to them. However, France firmly objected, claiming that they had only conducted scientific research on Bartman's body and that there was no discrimination or oppression.
I beg your country to return the Venus of the! "In 1996, the African Ministry of Culture again intervened on the matter, which sparked a heated debate. The five-year-long impasse was finally resolved in 2001, and Venus finally returned to her home in Africa in 2002.
By this time, she had been away from her hometown for nearly two hundred years and had been dead for 187 years.