Images at 1904 fair

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Images NYZS

Bronx Zoo Statement

Letter from Horniday about push back

People on display at World’s Fair – did not speak the same language (DOC)

Grant was intimately involved in securing Benga for the exhibit (Newkirk 16)

Benga personified the society’s mission to… (Newkirk 16)

Samuel Phillips Verner

Among other stories, claimed Benga was being held captive by “cannibalistic savages” and that he saved him from them (Newkirk 19)

Was commissioned to->

Had set out to procure pygmies for the St. Louis World’s Fair (Newkirk 20)

Verner – born into an aristocratic slave holding family, taken to white supremacy rallies, his father was a “member of the South Carolina legislature rabidly devoted to black disenfranchisement” (Newkirk 80)

Saw Africa as a place for white European and American Christian ascendancy (Newkirk 83)

Liopold II’s vicious rule over the Congo 1885-1908