Samuel Phillips Verner (center) with random Africans he bought from African slave traders on behalf of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904 and passed off as "pygmies" at World's Fair. - History Education Network

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Samuel Phillips Verner (center) with random Africans he bought from African slave traders on behalf of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904 and passed off as “pygmies” at World’s Fair.

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