On March 19, 1916, Ota Benga built a fire near his adopted home in Lynchburg, VA, where he removed the "civilizing" caps from his pointed teeth, undressed out of his "civilized"
On March 19, 1916, Ota Benga built a fire near his adopted home in Lynchburg, VA, where he removed the "civilizing" caps from his pointed teeth, undressed out of his "civilized" clothes to begin his mournful native dance around the flames. Ota would then lose himself in the gyrations, spinning, chanting and mournful singing done in his native tongue, as he twirled under the sky of his ancestors. Soon after, while Lynchburg slept, he would take the pistol he hidden in a shed behind Mammy Joe’s store on Garfield Street and fire one bullet into his heart, feeling this would be the only way he could be with his people once more.
Ota Benga’s story started when the Congo was overtaken by the genocidal maniac Leopold I and bled of all its natural resources. He was kidnapped by The Force Publique soldiers, after they slaughtered his wife and children, where he was sold to a rival tribe, where he would marry again to start life over. Unfortunately, soon after the tribe would sell him to a colonizer "missionary explorer" Phillips Verner for salt and cloth.
Verner was under contract of the St Louis world fair to bring back "pygmies" and tribesmen for their exhibitions. At 4'10 he was just exotic enough to sell to the crowd for years long event in 1904. Since Slavery was abolished, Verner convinced Benga to come with him willingly to the United States, as a "rescue", away from Leopold, after he heard his second wife died of a snakebite back in the Congo. Even though he promised Benga to take him back home, he instead turned him over to the Natural Museum of History as an exhibit. After many escape attempts, New York Zoological Society director William Hornaday, offered a more "stable" place where Ota would have his "run of the grounds".
It was September of 1906 when Hornaday decided to place Ota in a cage with orangutans as a lucrative money making attraction at the Bronx Monkey House. Unfortunately, he was right. Many ignorant, bigoted and the racist society came in hoards to gawk at the "Pygmy Tribesmen Cannibal" in his "natural" surroundings.
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