At 21, Ota Benga was brought to
the United States by African explorer Samuel Verner. Verner displayed
Ota Benga alongside six other pygmies of the Congolese Mbuti tribe at
the St. Louis World Fair in 1904. Verner then escorted them back to the
Congo, but Benga returned to America for the second time and ended up on
display at the Bronx Zoo. He then studied at a colored orphan asylum
and attended a Baptist Seminary. But only the forest held his attention
and he ultimately took his own life.
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