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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.

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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