The Showman and the Slave : : Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America /

The Showman and the Slave : : Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss.

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Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Reiss, Benjamin,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2001
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (281 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • AckrunvZedgments
  • Introduction: The Dark Subject
  • 1. DEATH AND DYING
  • 1. Possession
  • 2. The Celebrated Curiosity
  • 3. Private Acts, Public Memories
  • 4. Sacred and Profane
  • 5. Culture Wars
  • 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber
  • 7. Spectacle
  • II. RESURRECTION
  • 8. Authenticity and Commodity
  • 9. Exposure and Mastery
  • 10. Erasure
  • III. LIFE
  • 11. A Speculative Biography
  • Note to the 2010 Printing
  • Notes
  • Index

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