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On this day in 1916, Ota Benga, an African native who suffered inhumane treatment by being kept in a zoo, committed suicide.
He had been kidnapped in 1904 from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys.
Rest in Peace.
He had been kidnapped in 1904 from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys.
Rest in Peace.
Africans were kidnapped from Africa and brought to be exhibited in the human zoos. Many of them died quickly.
Saartji Baartman from South Africa was cruelly exploited in Europe by being exhibited as a freak show attraction, because of her protruding buttocks.
After her death at the age of 26, her body was dissected and studied as a science specimen and displayed for more than 100 years in Paris until 1974. In 2002 her body was taken back home to South Africa and laid to rest.
First they mock then they copy. 🤔
