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267 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674006362
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 09 October 2001
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In this story about one of the 19th century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P.T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly ensl...
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267 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674006362
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 09 October 2001
Description
In this story about one of the 19th century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P.T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly ensl...
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