Defending the dead

The many afterlives of Sarah Baartman

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Only the wayward appreciated her riotous conduct and wild habits and longing to create a life from nothing; only they could discern the beautiful plot against the plantation she waged each and every day.

– Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2019)

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