Caged in a Zoo: Ota Benga
2025
1 hr 30 min
English
"...this was a human being not at all unlike those that observed him, a man, with a name. Ota Benga."
In September, 1906, New York's Bronx Zoo briefly helf a Congolese man in a cage, alongside apes and chimpanzees. This is the story of Ota Benga, a man who was brought to America from a violent land, and found himself a spectacle to the masses. 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:02:09 - I: Origins & Congo "Free State" 0:06:35 - II: Sam & Otto 0:13:51 - III: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition 0:34:11 - IV: Return to the Congo 0:40:14 - V: Pygmy in New York City 0:48:04 - VI: "Is it a man?" 1:01:22 - VII: The Orphan 1:11:56 - VIII: Life in Lynchburg 1:19:12 - IX: Memories
- Status
- Released
Keywords
- congo
- racism
- bronx, new york city
- human zoo exhibit
- human zoo
- belgian congo
- early 1900s
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Top Cast
Ota Benga as Himself (image only)
Geno Samuel as Narrator (voice)
Top Crew
Geno Samuel · Writer, Editor
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