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Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo
by Phillips Verner Bradford, Harvey Blume
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Ota Benga Wikipedia Ota Benga was a Mbuti man known for being featured in an anthropology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis Missouri in 1904 and in a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo Benga had been purchased from African slave traders by the missionary and anthropologist Samuel Phillips Verner a businessman searching for African people for the exhibition He accompanied Verner to the United States Later at the Bronx Zoo Benga was allowed to walk the grounds before and afte OTA BENGA THE MAN WHO WAS CAGED IN A ZOO Science Faith Ota Benga was a black man a Pygmy After being on display at the World’s Fair for a while Ota was taken to the zoo in Brooklyn New York and displayed with monkeys in a cage Ota was mistreated and captured and put in a zoo only because of the belief in evolution This happened over one hundred years ago The Tragic Tale of the Pygmy in the Zoo Science Ota Benga a pygmy was born somewhere in a forest in Congo around 1883 He married young and started a family One day he returned from elephant hunting to find his village slaughtered and he 100 years ago today Ota Benga ended his horrible life 100 years ago on March 20 1916 Ota Benga took a gun and fired a bullet into his own heart ending the short and tragic life of the “missing link” from Africa Tragic life of a “pygmy” man the Bronx Zoo kept in a cage The Story of an African man CAGED at the Bronx zoo put on display – 100 years after he shot himself in the heartOtaBenga Ota Benga The Pygmy in the Zoo Phillips Verner Bradford Ota Bengas incredible and tragic journey from his murdered pygmy tribe in Africa to the Worlds Fair in St Louis to the Museum of Natural History and onto his captivity in the Bronx Zoo is fascinating and shocking The book also follows Samuel Werner the eccentric explorer who brought Ota Benga to America US Slave Ota Benga The Man In The Bronx Zoo Ota Benga 18831916 was an African Congolese Pygmy who was put on display in the monkey house at the Bronx Zoo in New York in1906 Railroads and Slave Labor North Americas four major rail networks — Norfolk Southern CSX Union Pacific and Canadian National — all own lines that were built and operated with slave labor
