On this day in 1916, Ota Benga, an African native who suffered inhumane treatment by being kept in a zoo, committed suicide.
In 1904, he was kidnapped from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys.
Africans were kidnapped from Africa and taken to be exhibited in the human zoos and many of them died quickly. The Human Zoo died out after WW II. Oddly it was Hitler who first banned them. The last was in Belgium in 1958.
In 1904, he was kidnapped from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys.
Africans were kidnapped from Africa and taken to be exhibited in the human zoos and many of them died quickly. The Human Zoo died out after WW II. Oddly it was Hitler who first banned them. The last was in Belgium in 1958.