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i. was pleased for more than 100 years from the meet 18 hundreds into the 2nd world war they traveled the world in search of people. human beings they classified as exotic animals to be exhibited in humans use these are now everybody's exhibitions worldwide phenomenon or go out the 19th and 20th century some $35000.00 human beings were exhibited to one and a half 1000000000 other characters that are so. human beings exhibited by other human beings. in susan circuses seaters and anatomy videos at colonial exhibitions and world famous this is only funny to me there's an anime are placed on the same level as a levels this was extremely disturbing and the same time there was a degree of conditioning which was very difficult to escape frank if someone opened
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it usually. children women and men were put on display in order to support a hierarchy of braces and to justify worldwide colonise ation. because i would also say it was so successful because people came to see the so-called savages from faraway lands whose exoticism had long fascinated them here for the 1st time they could be marvel that in the flesh will show us. all that they were supposed to depict cannibal ass although none of them actually worked cannibal ass it was all just there to see mounds of connacht in the thanks to humans sue's racism became accepted and commonplace visitors flock to see the ever more terrifying savages which were marketed accordingly i am. tom bowman ep originally from australia on a bender people from congo time. faria scullery
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a connect from new caledonia and monica kiley nya from guyana. they represent many thousands of people who were exhibited. at whose names history has forgotten. i am. buying. the losses new york so that the numbering is not about attaching blame to people here remembering is above all about understanding what happened and understanding the influence these actions have hard on all of us this exist. 'd 'd before we begin mass entertainment shimon exhibitions were reserved for the elite
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as early as the 16th century europeans imported strange savages from far flung lands for the enjoyment of rich heiress to france that royal course. bought by the beginning of the 19th century this fashion had spread just as pubs and theaters. by reaching a wider audience. in the united states the key in a few minutes to be sions was phineas taylor bonnet. from as early as 1841 his famous freak shows had attracted huge crowds of people and had earned him a fortune. just a drug for your brain wanted to put the strangest people in the world on stage because there. in this war mermaid can join twitter a bearded lady
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a giant thord would over they were all assembled in a gallery of the bizarre were visitors can catch a glimpse of an amazing and fantastic world hollywood didn't yet exist or but barnum was responsible for establishing a fascination for the stranger to. revolutionize the american circus when he created the greatest show on earth a huge traveling circus with 5000 seats this was also where he presented his savages to the public. info to more than 100 american commercial agencies and consulates throughout the world asking them to send him real wild savages in order to increase his worldwide truth of what he called freaks. the irishman of robert
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cunningham was able to satisfy phantom's wishes. when he heard about barnum's letter in 1903 he was in a stray year in north queensland to the aborigines the country's indigenous people who had been oppressed by british settlers since the 18th century deprived of their most basic rights victims of violence and racial segregation they were considered little more than a part of the form in flora. greenland one of the strike in the river it was a colony this was the turning point for aboriginal people who had been living near ground for countless to write because their land was being tagged for europe. aborigines to live in villages called black camps. coming i met cook a young aboriginal man who renamed. tamba. chandos companions were
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also given new names to be jenny and their son teddy jr being susie. jimmy and bob. the prevailing pseudo scientific ideology ranked aborigines the lowest amongst the hierarchy of human rights since making them highly sought after fish even in fun shows they were considered unsuited to modern life and facing extinction. are doing neither that not long after cunningham got on the bike from townsville they wanted to go back to the community they want to go are we now that the people was not aware of. what they were doing or selves involved in trying and actually had to remove all that clive's so that when ratified. when i
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got into sydney 2 people actually used to describe one of the stand police and the whole matter ended up before the court judge to release the tears guy read into it here coming here through a bar. in the wake of this upset and a group hastily boarded a ship in sydney and after a long crossing they joined the greatest show on earth in your. phone a man had prepared his new acquisitions to be the highlight if he showed he created a backstory for each of them and gave them drones to play. cower before billy the hunter and his terrifying scarfs succumbed to the chance to suzy princess of queensland and experience the thrill is fierce warrior tambo performs his sins so. you know more dense.
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the 2 or traveled across america at breakneck speed and. the troops appearance in more than $130.00 american and canadian cities pushed them to exhaustion. while barnum and cunningham made a fortune. handed. down a mansion i was in the remote all of them old great to be right in and out in all the horror that feeling to be still there. trying and trying to. find noises miles of. darkness had their feet. in 841 year after arriving in america and having travelled the whole country tanbo fell ill and died while still
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on to a. cunning him had the body mummified and sold his remains to a fairground museum in plain view and. more deaths followed in quick succession however the show went on despite these losses cunningham knew his troop could conquer europe he shipped them to london the traps of the few mins use. in london they performed nightly at the crystal palace which was constructed in $1051.00 full of the great it's a bishop. choosing by assume all 3 to be a certain though i'm not sure whether the visitors at that time had enough distance to say to themselves is a word this is a business this is not really real but just acting is sort of solution which i don't think that the distance was there that's. dangerous thing is.
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after england v aborigines set out on an extensive 2 were through the all seriousness and news of course. just asked not to come in berlin cardia and some pieces book. of. the family version empower us with the last survivors were photographed cheney and time beaching you would both contract to bet your loss'. the face of billy 10 most companion. would really. urge. i just wondered where years just look mary may confuse. for. the press. los lobos teams are 1st going overseas into another world. a
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spin stripped of those powers and essentially a spin you merely added because it is dominated by somebody else and probably meant to do. you nasser sidey he was respected as woman but may smile. when you see them. with the support of the astray and government grandad volta has brought home the more for man's face and says to tampa so you can finally rest in peace on palm island among his people. tom bows mom of 5 body had been found in 1993 in the united states in the basement of a funeral one in cleveland ohio. strong leaders are back respect comes for interest for country. i feel so much for the spirit franco and his priests is free.
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this story needs to be trial. surely because diverse bites of the past. grand readers of us in the future. was in this period when exoticism was all the rage show organizers not the only ones to cross the interest of the exhibitions around. the colonial power saw a great deal of the trinity to introduce to this is since both their colonies as well as the validity of their period policies. were.
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to the end of the 19th century a renewed impulse to colonize developed in the west the prompted the european powers but also the u.s. and japan to freely divide among themselves those territories still available. in particular africa. the world was gradually appropriated by those who saw themselves as uniquely civilized. at the same time humans use proliferated to justify colonial domination of the world. if nuclear is it colonized people have to accept our share from most of their own myth and that is exactly what happened in colonial times this is not only in africa
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and it but also in japan should elsewhere was received which are born here. believe bookers already exist in order for the savage to exist she knows who are presumed to be savages must accept that this is indeed exactly what they are clearly the victim of. at the beginning of the $890.00 s. the role of the human souse we shifted in response to political objectives which would must be staged and orchestrated. moloko story is that of a survivor after months of humiliation she was able to return to have a leech and have people. 100 years later her descendants recalled the suffering of the exhibition people and
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she had learned on a trauma. more nicole and her companions belong to the kenyan people 1000 guyana in 1902 more eco together with other people in his village left the banks of the moroni river in guyana accompanied by the sound of drums sheen 32 others who volunteered to undertake the journey. there's also no one going to be the old people told us that there was a big party before the parcher. if you produce the remember a must read that the ship gradually disappears over the horizon you've grown out of then they could still see what was happening but by the sheer cruelty of the horizon there was silence. the french explorer franz one of all sent by
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the military for colonies was able to convince the continue to head off into the unknown the money in beautiful sights and sounds that they would be well treated. i think what it cost travel compared with were better for women and children became voluntarily or locked up in cages or what they were supposed to make pottery imperioli up until dugouts instead they were forced to act as savages for the audience and were w. related in the process they were not accepted for who they were and they quickly realized that they are indeed regarded as savages. subjected to constant humiliation the killing here like all other people exhibited the time was subjected to racial scientific studies. yeah end. to
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end the exhibition of the new was a great success. the public flocked to the shop and document how strong. the calumet embodied to perfection what human savages wanted to be like. the wintel disease and exhaustion rapidly caused the deaths of some members of the troupe in paris the show continued nonetheless. of the original 32000000 year who travel to france only 10 returned to their village. more like 0 was one of them. at least while the early hero of this part of italy knew history is very distressing because the people could not mourn the loss of a fairly very viscous of a small grief is something very important obviously the people and even
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a century later it is still impossible to sort of. you have us in the. car only a mother and daughter they are direct ascendance of monaco. i have never seen these photos of monocle and his fellow companions of misfortune taken by very long bonaparte. and i know that's monaco that was a great grandmother's 1st name she was called recall the name we don't know and the other one miles. she said they were afraid when they reached france and guess what she said when she told me what happened and whether she would take kindly to when i feel sorry for them back then and then with a commander or. a championship i feel sad
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at them. for it and when i look at these fighters here we've got to. knock down that part i thought and never talked about his grandmother leaving him a beautiful i've never seen these fighters say it was your dream but i can look at them. because you're a godly. unspoken trauma is something the descendants still struggle with today. you know by me but i don't think it was right or ban it was the corner boy the way the white people made them do all this nonsense is it way you know what did they want with them i meet at the hill such behavior is mistreatment and marble money to buy if a white man takes them away he must treat them fairly believed such treatment was
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simply not correct what i mean. i mean they wanted to force their will on the color you can't place it but maybe they did not play them i'm maybe that's what happened . nobody really knows what happened back then no one. 2 really exists there is no textbook course about indigenous history. the story about how we're on today to know his story has dealt with this aspect of both and yet it is part of our identity he said also a facet of the history fronts released to africa are false that's why we're going to rest it and it's today we're holding. the exhibition of the colonial was an important 1st step towards a state exploitation of the colonized people for propaganda purposes. the
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ministry of colonies took control of human exhibitions oh private shows now needed it's all cries ation. the production spread across the atlantic america was now also getting involved of all the peoples exhibit is a monster damped in terms of popularity 6 diminutive africans attracted everyone's attention they were back for pygmies from the belgian congo the st louis anthropology department had financed an african expedition led by the explorer samuel fearnot to bring them to be presented exclusively if the exhibition. also bangle was one major 41 in height this young man with the any magic smile was soon to become the most popular among. the. samuel burner it was
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a mission explicitly to bring back paid me because it was only at that time that they were the least civilized people on the planet and the whole point of the st louis world's fair was a map of human progress from the lowest to the highest with a pygmy said to represent the lowest form of humanity. since ation 85 the congo had been the property of the building king leopold the 2nd his authority was unchallenged and his rule was particularly violent and hosh acts of brutality were commonplace. samovar unself said how he captured the pagans he wrote about how the people were crying as he was like loading most people on to the ships and. got away he also indicated how he had gone into villages with force he was armed and he
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had consent and the support of a good all regime to exercise his mission. of all the so called specimens presented at the exhibition the pygmies aroused the precious cheerio city among the visitors. they represented absolute savagery. this small start shit was jus to move from logical adaptation to living in the equitorial rainforest. according to westerners it signified that there was subhuman . they saw in the confirmation of man's descent from apes proof of darwin's famous theory of the missing link between man and animal. day after day a lot of anger was treated to the american spoke dashi and content. a
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lot of bankers cheese or probably most responsible for the car renders experience he had in the united states because of his teeth which war shipped to points a very common practice in the congo this imagery of our days. his idea that he had been a cannibal or as he was. this deception consummate his samuel venice success he received the st louis gold medal at the closing ceremony of the it submission which attracted almost 20000000 visitors. after travelling to the congo again the explorer finally took auto banqueting new york is american adventure had resumed but behind us it was nice you know 6 said no
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van it was unable to provide for his pygmy so he loaned him to the head of the bronx zoo who put him in a monkey cage. he was made to play the savage with bow and arrow his props in a few short years and more than 40000 people came to see him in an enclosure he shared with a chimpanzee. his new partner with whom he performs small tricks. there's an outcry in the press and not just the african-american prospered increasingly in the mainstream press and this is so degrading and so contrary to what a civilized nation should be doing that so with authorities together with some of the ministers in new york got work out an arrangement to have banker conveyed to an orphanage. now free in the can of a religious community also being a hope finally to be able to integrate into his adopted country the black ministers
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who took him in in 1010 gave him a western christian education he went to primary school and took in english lessons subsequently he was sent to lynchburg virginia where he got to know and spencer a respected african-american poet and civil rights activist. she taught him to write to. protect. and supporters also been to try to live a normal life and go to work. as a congo pygmy he could not adapt to the country of the ku klux klan. or the end of the story the 1st world war breaks out and it was clear to bangor that it's going to be very very difficult to get back to the con. we don't know exactly what precipitated sakshi but you know he takes his own life he. has
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a gun and lives his residence shoots himself through the heart. of the time of his death toll vs ours to come to the united states it was the most famous savic in american show business. his body was never claimed by the conqueror . in the straw coming yard into a list of all the losses from the middle of the benghazi story is the story of racism with thousands of people who stared out of anger and fail to see if she was being if it's even we can see how throughout history these men and women have been denied their humanity in order to justify the alleged superiority of white people in the us in the garage. i am.
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i. am the 1st world war reset attitudes towards exhibits in people and to colonial operations the 2 great powers britain and france chose out of economic and military opportunism to enroll people from economy. i now believe they can be civilized and useful if they can be kept under supervision yesterday savages which days brave soldiers all indigenous workers. in the eyes of the countries they fight for they are now fighting an even more primitive savage. the germans.
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after victory was achieved afro caribbean hindu african american connected african and asian soldiers from the french and the allied armies courageous on the show's lisa a to the chance of the crowds. this is the story run up against the human exhibitions at 1800 different now they are no longer savages a rush of sorts they remain natives and are not already quite sick but they no longer live in the dark feels as they are on the road to civilization and are portrayed as being at the service of the great colonial ational so is the whole national couldn't look past the vacation of these territories the state of nettles with the help of folklore exoticism it would even eroticize of voters of the result is a world that only functions due to the domination of the west just was the message remains the savior joerg we are the masters and they are the natives sluggo is a shit. hole. what else can we was 21 when he agreed to leave his new caledonian homeland to travel to paris
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with a 100 cut of k'nex. it was 19 thinking one he trusted the french official who suggested he and the others present that connect culture at the colonial exhibition in paris. they were to return in 8 months some. $100.00 people agreed to undertake the journey including teachers students customs officers fighters and seamen. little did they know that they would become the tragic heroes of one of the greatest humiliations in french history. and the shut down book limitless on mario's was told he could not leave his enclosure unaccompanied to rest or prying. none of the promises made were kept he had been tricked it was if he had returned
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to the 19th century. and i must it was terrible they had to perform from morning till night the women had to breastfeed in public they had to build dug out and dance all day. it is going off they were slaves i think that violates human dignity is even though nobody died people should not treat other people like that of the presume. that some of the trip went to germany while twice a week the others performed at the colonial exhibition in paris. the organizers exhibited them as natives from new caledonia as part of the colonies official presentation. unlike in the gendarme became
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a touchstone they were not presented as savages but as bone natives of the empire. france was to showcase the scope of an empire which was at its peak with a population of a $100000000.00 and an area twice that of the roman empire. imagine it is was a colonial exhibition was $2.00 to $3.00 times the size of disneyland in paris and it took place not outside but in the center of paris in former workers districts that had been completely redesigned at the time the cinema was still in its infancy sound film had just been invented and here an entire colonial empire was now being recreated in orbit it was like holy orders were sold in. the exhibition was inaugurated by the president just all the men and russian military joined by the
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undersecretary of state for the colonies blaze. in just a few months 33000000 tickets were sold. and to. suffolk 931 was the peak of the should do for a long period is not to say that a real decline was starting. it was important to show that france's history which had cost a lot of money has countless parliamentary debates and has finally paid off the new introduced and the promise of educating inferior people to a level not too far removed from the nation's standards had been achieved but it will be. all over the world forces will be getting to denounce human seems the 1st time an enormous scandal erupted in france the human rights like the communists and even former communists of new caledonia were protesting all agree that such displays were unacceptable you could not glorify the
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civilizing mission of colonize station and at the same time exhibit fake savages. the connects being exhibited in germany also stashed rebelling and were less and less willing to play the game. the protests prompted the minister of. colonies to order the shot out of him to strong to close the exhibition and to bring back part of the troop in germany as hard and. at stake was the honor of the french republic which could not be seen to be condoning such productions. the authorities decided to repatriate troops the k'nex arrived home in july 1932.
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marios colorway did not wish to return he saw his future in france and refused to board the ship in ma say and returned to the woman he loved she was french her name was juliet gabrielle far from and missing her was the only good luck it had in france. a few weeks later the couple married in border. you know you're in. what is surprising is that the marriage contract here says the future wife wishes to keep her french nationality out the venison a difference is basically because converts were considered to be foreign is even though they came from a french colony. sylvette was born one year later. she was only a few months old when models died in a trance accident. her family always hid the fact that her father was
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a canary. only in her old age she discovered her origins thanks to a journalist friend. today sylvette has returned to the zoological gardens where her father was exhibited. there of australia's saw that i would pay the debts of french but also new caledonian stories in their own i'm proud because it was my father but the way he was treated is shocking. to father who suffer it's not a very nice stories especially as i never got to know him. this place touches me it's a figure i have the feeling that these people are always present here. on. a range from arias says remains to be returned to new caledonia in 2006. today he
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rests among his people in national cemetery on the island of leave. your home back to miami returned by ship and took him to the tribe they prepared food to the children so everyone spoke about his story he has returned his back home. the exhibition of the k'nex was one of the last in europe the scandal was so great that such shows were no longer possible. in the decade prior to
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the 2nd world war humans zoos and colonial exhibitions gradually ceased. the last of such exhibitions took place at the end of the decade in britain portugal germany and italy there were no longer profitable public was tired of them only a few diehards hung on but their productions were so blatantly mediocre the visitors shunned them. at. the end of him and sues the start of revolts heralding decolonized nation wars to abandon the souse was to abandon colonial domination a new era had begun but one of conflict and suffering. of the next 20 years from 142960 would be the darkest and most violent of the 20th
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century the 2nd world war to colonize sation the revolts against segregation in the united states away for a violent struggle swept all over the world. this long chat for a few streams really only concluded when the colonies won their independence from the mid 950 s. through the mid 1970 s. . from their own words. the west will try by any means to raise this shameful past . this one is rumored to be able do it with the history of the human zeus is forgotten because a belongs to the history of focal chernobyl yet not to the great colonial history that is cycles where some of the researchers of the 50s status found this phenomenon completely irrelevant governor is actually very day we're beginning to rediscover all this and ask ourselves the simple question of how could people in the west believe that human beings on the other side of the ocean were all savages
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really so that. in the mid 1900 scientists in museum directors began to open the cranks search the archives and even to exam remains. in temple poor it is important to study the past in order to understand what is happening in the present soon with the qualia for example if you want to understand why racism exists in our societies you only have to look at the human zoos through the history of colonization and slavery we go to a more only then will you understand why the rest in a claim for a superior domination today. in goodness. to lay this pass to rest the body must rest in peace. one day send home the bodies of the exhibited as we did in the past the tambo. will we one day write down moloko story
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into the history books of guyana and also france all that of money as a way to overcome the conflicting memories that persist not least of new caledonia what can we do so that one day the body of autumn banga is reclaimed by the congo and written into the country's history. it is now the duty of the generation to rescue these stories from oblivion. only by creating and in the life and culture of remembrance can we finally close the chapter on human soon.
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