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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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Main Author: Reiss, Benjamin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Barnum, P. T. > (Phineas Taylor), > 1810-1891.
Heth, Joice, > -1836.
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > United States > Biography.
Freak shows > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
White people > Race identity > United States.
African Americans in popular culture > History > 19th century.
Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Death in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Northeastern States > Race relations.
African Americans in popular culture.
Death in popular culture.
Popular culture.
Race relations.
Racism in popular culture.
White people > Race identity.
Enslaved women.
Northeastern States.
United States.
Biographies.
History.

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