The Showman and the Slave : Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0674055640
ISBN-13
9780674055643
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 15th, 2010
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
442 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.70 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
History
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Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. The newly emerging commercial press turned her act into one of the first media spectacles in American history.
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