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Author Newkirk, Pamela, author.

Title Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga / Pamela Newkirk.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
©2015

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B BENGA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  967.51 NEW    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B BENGA OTA N    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297).
Contents Author's note -- Preface -- Part I. Caged. Gardens of wonder ; The Bronx Zoo monkey house ; Crimes of the Congo ; Hornaday's folly ; Benga's brigade ; Fighting City Hall ; Benga speaks ; Backlash ; Nature's fury ; Deliverance -- Part II. Captured. Samul Phillips Verner ; Luebo Mission ; Kondola, Kassongo, and Verner's African treasures ; The hunt ; Verner's prey ; The St. Louis World's Fair ; Congo field notes ; Leopold's lobby ; Benga's choice ; A museum most unnatural ; Fondless farewell -- Part III. Free. Weeksville refuge ; St. James ; Southern comfort ; Home ; Free ; Homecoming -- Epilogue.
Summary Describes the cruelty and prevalent racial prejudice in early-twentieth-century America that resulted in a Congolese man being featured in an exhibit in the 1904 World's Fair and then displayed in the Monkey House of a New York zoo.
Subject Benga, Ota.
Pygmies -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Pygmies -- United States -- Biography.
Pygmies -- Crimes against -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Human zoos -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Title Life of Ota Benga
ISBN 9780062201003
006220100X
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