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The Showman And The Slave

Race, Death, And Memory In Barnum’S America

by Benjamin Reiss
language: english
Publisher: Harvard University Press, March of 2010 ‧
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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.

The Showman And The Slave

Race, Death, And Memory In Barnum’S America

by Benjamin Reiss

Property Description
ISBN: 9780674055643
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: March of 2010
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 288
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > History > History of America
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780674055643