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The Human Zoo: The Stolen Lives Behind the Greatest Spectacles of the Gilded Age

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The shocking full story of the “human zoos” that exploited thousands of Indigenous people

In the 19th century, as colonial expansion exposed previously unknown civilizations to the Western gaze, a small group of entrepreneurs, adventurers, and anthropologists created a new form of popular entertainment: "human zoos." Between 1871 and World War I, more than 20,000 Indigenous people, from Southeast Asia to the far North to the tip of South America, were abducted, coerced, or convinced to appea...