The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America - Benjamin Reiss - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674055643 - March 15, 2010
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Benjamin Reiss
The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America

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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.

288 pages, 12 halftones

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Released March 15, 2010
ISBN13 9780674055643
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 157 × 233 × 23 mm   ·   442 g
Language English  

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