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84: Abusive Prisons or Animal Oasis: Are Zoos Evil? | Dark History with Bailey Sarian

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The Dark History of Carl's Animal Zoos

In 1880, an Inuit family of eight from a region in Canada died of smallpox because they weren't vaccinated by the people in charge. And then an entire group of Sioux natives lost their lives to measles and pneumonia, all because the people in control weren't taking care of them. Human zoos have been around since 1836 but were seen as a form of mass entertainment. The human zoos continued for many, many years and the last one didn't even close until the 2000s.

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