• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    We even had human zoos in Brussels. With black people from the Congo in cages depicting what life was there.

    We did some horrific things in our past.

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      4 days ago

      There was one account from “King Leopold’s ghost” where a Congo chief was asked to either go live in a Brussels zoo and travel the world as a spectacle or his village would be wiped out.

      He chose to he a zoo animal and when his tour ended, the village was wiped out.