This may be hard to believe, but it happened. Human beings were exhibited in zoos in America as well as in European cities like Antwerp, London, Paris.
"After the emergence of Darwin’s theory of evolution, freak shows would often feature people purported to be 'missing links' between modern humans and their ape-like ancestors."
Three months after Origin of Species was published, staff at P.T. Barnum's museum said that, according to scientists, a new creature in the circus called the man-monkey was a missing link between human beings and lower animals. But in reality, the exhibit was William Henry Johnson, an African-American man.
from Human Zoos
(cont'd tomorrow)
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