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The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America

ISBN: 0674006364 ;ISBN: 9780674006362 ;EISBN: 9780674042650 ;EISBN: 0674042654 ;DOI: 10.4159/9780674042650 ;OCLC: 744545531

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  • Title:
    The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America
  • Author: Reiss, Benjamin
  • Description: 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.
  • Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard University Press
  • Creation Date: 2001
  • Format: 282
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0674006364
    ISBN: 9780674006362
    EISBN: 9780674042650
    EISBN: 0674042654
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674042650
    OCLC: 744545531
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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