human zoo in paris, 1905.
—In the late 1800s through the 1900s, White Americans & Europeans used Africans to create "Human Zoos" in cities like Paris, Hamburg, Antwerp, Barcelona, London, Milan, Warsaw, St Louis and New York City.
The idea of a Negro village was the most popular in Germany, where the ideas of Social Darwinism were widely accepted by many people. Human zoos were 19th and 20th century public exhibits of African people on display like at a museum, but in true life forum, also known as an "ethnological exposition" (the exhibition of human beings & a Negro village).
Rarely did you find whites in these exhibitions, but you could always find Africans, Asians & Indigenous people of all kind caged and displayed in a "makeshift natural habitat."
These human displays were very popular & shown at world fairs where they drew Europeans and Americans in the tens of millions, from Paris to Hamburg, London to New York, Moscow to Barcelona... This was the Europeans way of solidifying "White Supremacy", through the expense of torturing and humiliating indigenous people.
The Africans were usually forced to live behind gates and in cages similar to animals in a zoo today. This is what made them feel superior over other people in the world.
Most Africans were kidnapped and brought to be exhibited in the human zoo. Many of them died quickly, some within a yr. of their captivity.
Alarge number of visitors attended these exhibitions in each city daily. The Parisian World Fair featured a human zoo that exhibited Africans, and 34 million people were drawn to the exhibition in just six months.😢
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