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The Wikipedia page for Sarah "Saartjie" Baartman says that according to African literature professor Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, the fashion for wearing bustles in 19th-century England was derived from the fetishization of Baartman's body type. Can anyone elaborate on this?

by /u/TchaikenNugget in /r/AskHistorians

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