The Present Past

The Most Evil Zoo in History

Thanks to Odoo for sponsoring this video: https://www.odoo.com/r/7qG Human zoo's were once very popular. How? 00:00 - Intro 02:58 - The Organizers 05:10 - Zoo's everywhere 06:18 - Origins of the Human Zoo 08:20 - Amsterdam 1883 09:56 - The Scientists 11:13 - St. Louis 1904 12:08 - The Visitors 14:25 - The Performers 18:58 - The End of the Human Zoo Special Thanks to: Pascal Blanchard Jurgen Zimmerer Maarten Couttenier Directed by: Jochem Boodt Edit: Erik Conteras Mencinger 2D: Ahmed Jasim/Zala Reberc 3D: Killian Scheffold/Marijn Knol Sources: Blanchard, Pascal, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boëtsch, and Éric Deroo, eds. Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empires. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008. Demski, Dagnosław, and Dominika Czarnecka, eds. Staged Otherness: Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850–1939. Central European University Press, 2021. https://decorrespondent.nl/3946/het-macabere-verhaal-van-s-werelds-eerste-beroemde-bil/8f6bf8ae-a251-053d-3dbb-998fc8289977 https://onh.nl/verhaal/bizar-mensen-tentoongesteld-amsterdam Hi there, my name is Jochem Boodt. I make the show The Present Past, where I show how the present has been influenced by the past. History, but connected to the present and fun! Every episode I show how history has influenced and made a thing, an idea or event in our present time. I make different content. You can find me on: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepresentpast Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_presentpast/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/@ThePresent_Past Logo by: https://www.instagram.com/multicolor_junkie/ If you have an idea for an episode please fill in this form: https://www.dropbox.com/request/nMMMSpoNWUJHBIZ8hJRu