European in the late 18th and early 19th centuries created what they called “human zoos” in cities such as Paris; Hamburg, Germany; Antwerp, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; London; Milan; Warsaw, Poland; St Louis; and New York City.

Below are some of the pictures of helpless African people they kept in those “human zoos”. The whites went to watch Black people who were on display in those zoos.

(1) This is a “Peoples Show” in Brussels, Belgium, where the young Black girl is fed by the white spectators.

(2) Congolese pygmy Ota Benga was on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York City in 1906. He was forced to carry around chimpanzees and other apes.

(3) One of the many human zoos in France.

(4) A 20-year-old girl from South Africa known as Sarah “Saartjie” Baartman was recruited to work in a Paris zoo because of a genetic characteristic known as steatopygia — protuberant buttocks and elongated labia. Whites went to the zoo to look at her buttocks and at other naked Black women with the same shape.


(5) This is one of France’s many “Negro Villages.” It was said the village would often display Blacks to dehumanize them and compare them to animals.

(6) This is another “Negro Village” in France. It was called “The World Fair,” where nude or semi-nude Black women and children were presented in cages.

(7) Black Africans are shown participating in archery in 1904 in St Louis at an event whites organized called the “Savage Olympics Exhibition.”

( A “Negro village” similar to PT Barnum’s exhibition of Joice Heth, an enslaved African-American who was blind and almost completely paralyzed. Barnum lied to the visitors saying she was the 160-year-old nurse of President George Washington.

(9) Pygmies were made to dance during numerous exhibitions to entertain visitors at zoos in both Germany and England.

(10) This is a Somalia village exhibit at Luna Park in St. Petersburg, Russia.

(11) A Black African mother is shown with her child in a “Negro Village.”

(12) At the Parisian World Fair, this was a part of the 1931 exhibit that was so successful that it drew 34 million people that year.

(13) A Black mother and her child at a “Negro Village” in Germany.  This exhibit was known to be very popular and was even visited by conservative statesman Otto von Bismarck.

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They were ignorant back then.

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....The coming of the missionaries did absolutely more harm than good, they used our women as sex slaves, beat our men, use us for forced labour, kill us, sold us, used us as amusement, put us in zoos, gave us their religions and cultures and we lost our way lost deep inside our own inferiority . . . Am sorry mama africa

vheMa:
OMG see curve 4 dis fourth pic. How I wish,I have very big yansh

You are funny!!!

Hmm, man's inhumanity to man

donogaga:

You are funny!!!

truth,they say its bitter

vheMa:
truth,they say its bitter

You have no sympathy do you know that?

The shameful result of defeat. Nothing has changed, its just that the techniques of humiliation has developed into another form which the future generation would see better.