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Author Newkirk, Pamela, author.

Title Spectacle [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] the astonishing life of Ota Benga / Pamela Newkirk.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
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Note Electronic book.
Contents Part I. Caged. Gardens of wonder ; The Bronx Zoo monkey house ; Crimes of the Congo ; Hornaday's folly ; Benga's brigade ; Fighting City Hall ; Benga speaks ; Backlash ; Nature's fury ; Deliverance -- Part II. Captured. Samuel Phillips Verner ; Luebo Mission ; Kondola, Kassongo, and Verner's African treasures ; The hunt ; Verner's prey ; The St. Louis World's Fair ; Congo field notes ; Leopold's lobby ; Benga's choice ; A museum most unnatural ; Fondless farewell -- Part III. Free. Weeksville refuge ; St. James ; Southern comfort ; Home ; Free ; Homegoing.
Summary "Describes the cruelty and prevalent racial prejudice in early-twentieth-century America that resulted in a Congolese man being featured in an exhibit in the 1904 World's Fair and then displayed in the Monkey House of a New York zoo,"--Amazon.com.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] HarperCollins 2015 Available via World Wide Web.
Subject Benga, Ota.
Pygmies -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Pygmies -- United States -- Biography.
Pygmies -- Crimes against -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Human zoos -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Benga, Ota.
Human zoos.
Manners and customs.
Pygmies.
Pygmies -- Crimes against.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
United States.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre Biographies.
Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
Added Title Life of Ota Benga
ISBN 9780062201010 (electronic bk.)
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