HUMAN ZOO

Human zoos were ethnographic displays where humans were kept caged, much like our present day zoos. Cruel, don't you think?

My heart goes out for the poor girl! Thank God the Human Zoos were banned!
These ethnographic displays slowly died out after World War II. First banned by Hitler, the last was in Belgium in 1958.

An Excerpt from http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16295827

"The saddest emblem of the coming era was the South African Saartjie Baartman, later to be known as the Hottentot Venus. Born around 1780, she was brought to London in 1810 and put on display.
She had the genetic characteristic known as steatopygia - extremely protuberant buttocks and elongated labia - which evidently delighted the cabaret-goers of the British capital.
When she died in poverty, her skeleton was put on display. It remained on show in the Museum of Mankind in Paris until 1974. In 2002, her remains were repatriated and buried in South Africa."