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Antwerp’s painful colonial past took a haunting turn in 1894, when 144 Congolese people were exhibited like animals in a human zoo at the World’s Fair — seven died from illness. For decades, Belgium and Antwerp turned away from this legacy, but in May of this year, the city finally honored the victims with a monument, responding to calls from the Congolese community and signaling a hard-won step toward reckoning with its dark history.

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