 Moments after Parks' Girl transforms into The Hottentot Venus, after being sold by the Brother to the Mother-Showman, the Negro Resurrectionist alludes to an illegal and historically inhumane reality attached to Venus's character.Elements of slave-ownership enmeshed with lustful desire towards Black women appear in "Venus" between the Venus and the Baron Docteur.This "Black Venus master narrative" is replayed by Parks in the Baron Docteurs' characterization as a lover of Venus–whom he impregnates twice–and as an owner of Venus from the time he bought her from the Mother-Showman.