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Discuss this new Article by @Gary Oswald here
The point that Europe had already got small populations of black citizens & expats - and had seen more of them in the past - when the first human zoos were going "LOOK AT THIS" is eye-opening.
To be completely fair, it's likely that many- if not the majority- of those who went to the human zoos wouldn't have seen black people before. The most likely would have been the very poor in dockyard areas, and the very wealthy who might have seen the high status figures.
Definitely something to keep her remains on display for centuries over. /sIn the case of Sara, at least in Paris, there are her buttocks.
In the case of Sara, at least in Paris, there are her buttocks.
It's a interesting contrast to make, considering that a lot of freaks did quite well for themselves. I'm particularly thinking of the Bunker twins in America, who actually have a similar backstory of being non-westerners being picked up by a white businessman and brought to the west, but they eventually told him to stuff it and then proceeded to make enough money to become members of the southern slave-owning aristocracy. Which created the counterintuitive situation after the war of people having ethical problems with paying money to see "freaks" because of what said freaks had done previously.In court it was argued that Sara was no different than any white ‘freak’ displaying themselves in circuses, such as Joseph Merrick did decades later.