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The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America Benjamin Reiss
The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America
Benjamin Reiss
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
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Paperback Book (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado) |
| Publicado | 15 de marzo de 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674055643 |
| Editores | Harvard University Press |
| Páginas | 288 |
| Dimensiones | 157 × 233 × 23 mm · 442 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |
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