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

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

Benjamin Reiss

267 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
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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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