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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.
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The Showman and the Slave, Benjamin Reiss
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- The Showman and the Slave
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Benjamin Reiss
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0674055640
- ISBN13
- 9780674055643
- 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.