Ota Bengoa killed himself in the cage with an orangutan at the New York Zoo
20 March 1916,
Mbuti pygmy from Congo spent his youth hunting elephants until his family and people were destroyed by European colonialism.
User Joan has still worked in the social field the biography of: In 1904 he was transferred to the United States to be kidnapped in Missouri to the Universal Expo. In the Anthropology section, several tribes of the world were presented in a pejorative way, to point out that the intervention of the United States was necessary to civilize the world.
It was bought by some Americans who traveled to Africa looking for people at the Expo, along with eight other crops. The Americans made them suffer a lot and, among other things, to look savage, the photo below shows how Ota Benga's teeth were tied. 40,000 people went to visit her daily, predominating mocks and contempt.
At the end of the Expo they traveled the United States showing up in both. After the mobile show ended in 1906, it was sent to the Bronx Zoo in New York. It was introduced into the so-called "Monkey House" with several primates. The Ota Benga lived there, among several trees that wanted to represent the jungle.
The exhibition was very successful, although the exposure of a person at a zoo provoked criticism from the part of the African-American church.
Before the end of the year, and after a series of scientific debates, when he was released from the zoo, he was sent to an asylum for black people where he lived until 1910. She then moved to Virginia, in the custody of poet Anne Spencer. They tried to integrate into the American lifestyle and sent him to study theology.
Of course, Ota Benga never adapted to this life. For a while he worked in a tobacco factory, but he plunged into a deep depression, as he could not return to Africa and had been seen as a monster in the United States.
Today, in 1916, at 32, he committed suicide with a shot in his heart.
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