Ota Benga

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What Wikipedia says

Ota Benga (c. 1883 – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) former slave and performer at an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo.

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