The dreadful treatment of Ota Benga (second from left), a Congolese man ‘exhibited’ in New York’s Bronx Zoo in 1906, sparked outrage and he was eventually released. But six years later he tragically took his own life after being unable to assimilate into (25/78)

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The dreadful treatment of Ota Benga (second from left), a Congolese man ‘exhibited’ in New York’s Bronx Zoo in 1906, sparked outrage and he was eventually released. But six years later he tragically took his own life after being unable to assimilate into
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