The showman and the slave : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America /
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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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2001.
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