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Such zoos could be found in New York, London, Warsaw, Barcelona, Hamburg and other cities around the world with up to 300,000 visitors attending each display.
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A Negro Village was the main attraction at the 1889 Parisian World’s Fair. About 28 million people visited it.
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Human zoos were so popular in Germany that even German-Prussian statesman of the late 19th century Bismarck attended one of them.
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These five Indians from Kawesqar tribe were kidnapped from Chile in 1881 to be exhibited in one of the European human zoos. They all died within a year.
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Africans were often exhibited next to monkeys to show that they were closer to animals than to humans.
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PS: These are Japanese prostitutes in the end of the 19th century.
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