Sara Baartman was a South African woman born into slavery. She suffered from a condition called Steatopygia which causes excessive fat growth on the hips and buttocks. It affects men and women of all races. However, Sara used it to her advantage; gaining wealth in what we would now call a freak show.
She went from being enslaved in South Africa to a free woman living in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of London. Unfortunately, her story would not have a happy ending with her deceased body being displayed in the French National Museum for over 100 years. But how did this happen?
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"History is written by the winners," is a phrase that is often repeated. However, it's not true. More often than not the losers write history. What we're left with is a sterilized view of history that does a great disservice to us all. These retellings are often filled with outright lies such as a George Washington's wooden teeth or are told in a way that would make the average person view it as too complicated. I'm here because history doesn't need to complicated, but it needs to be told, and told truthfully.
The purpose of Ultra Black History is to look at history from a decolonized point of view and provide the world with that information.
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