Ota Benga: Caged in a Zoo - Michigan State University

The St. Louis Fair presented Ota and the other Africans as a primitive people who lived in huts. They were displayed, along with members of about fifty Native American Tribes (including the prisoner of war, Geronimo), Eskimos, and natives of Japan, Greenland, and others, as part of the evolutionary cycle. ................
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