Torn from her South African tribe by Dutch settlers, sold as a slave, trapped in a world of debauchery and trickery, and humiliated while living in early 19th-century London and Paris, Sarah Bartmann clings desperately to her beliefs and the memories of her native land.
Exile Child is more than just her story. It is a tale of hope, of courage beyond human endurance, of the power of the human spirit, of a young woman who refuses to give in to the alien world into which she has been so violently thrust.
Torn from her South African tribe by Dutch settlers, sold as a slave, trapped in a world of debauchery and trickery, and humiliated while living in early 19th-century London and Paris, Sarah Bartmann clings desperately to her beliefs and the memories of her native land.
Exile Child is more than just her story. It is a tale of hope, of courage beyond human endurance, of the power of the human spirit, of a young woman who refuses to give in to the alien world into which she has been so violently thrust.
