---
title: 'Bringing the Pygmies to America'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Samuel Phillips Verner'
date: 1904-09-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Colonization'
- 'Politics'
- 'Travelogues'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 13'
- 'Matthew 28'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/verner-1904-bringing-the-pygmies-to-america
---

# Bringing the Pygmies to America

Reports on US debate over Philippine self-government vs. independence, and Rev. S.P. Verner’s travel account of bringing Batwa pygmies from Central Africa to the Louisiana Exposition.

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