Colonialism’s Cages: When Indigenous People Were Placed In Human Zoos
These haunting images taken inside human zoos reveal the dark secret of Europe and America’s not-so-distant colonial past. Like this gallery?Share it : In the thick of late 19th and former 20th - century colonialism , across Europe and the United States , people – along with animals – could be found in zoological garden . There , livid families could gawp at individual who had been dragged from foreign land and place inside cages , where they acted out a functioning of their " daily living " for the onlookers ' entertainment ....