The Showman and the Slave : : Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Published: 2010.