What was the name of the slave who had a big butt?

Answer 1

The slave with the big butt...

This will in fact describe many people with origins of Africa.

The Hottentots were from what I can remember a "special" race of black people with quite large butts in comparison to other people.

Saartje Baartman, the so called "Hottentot Venus", paraded around to curious European audiences who made a mockery of her body. Even after her death, her genitals were put on display in a museum.

I am not sure if this is the slave you wanted the name of, but it fits your description.

Saartje Baartman came to Europe voluntarily from what I have read. She was promised money and prosperity and got something far from it.

She became a freakish attraction investigated by supposed scientists and put under the voyeuristic eye of the general public.

She was forced to show off her large buttocks and her out-sized genitalia at circus sideshows, museums, bars and universities. She died in 1816 aged 26, a penniless prostitute.

She was after her death put on show in a museum.

It was not until Friday 9th August 2002, almost 200 years after her death, that she received a proper burial in her own country.