Samuel Phillips Verner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSamuel Phillips Verner
U.S. missionary
Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1873
Place of Birth: Oconee County, South Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 09-Oct-1943
Profession: missionary
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Samuel Phillips Verner
- Samuel Phillips Verner (14 November 1873 - 9 October 1943) was an American missionary and African explorer who transported people from Africa for ethnographic spectacles in the United States of America.
- He also traded in wild animals from Africa that he sold to American zoos.
- Most well-known and controversial among Verner's transported African natives was Ota Benga who was held as a human spectacle in the Bronx zoo until he killed himself.
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