The showman and the slave
Women slaves
White people
Whites
Race identity
Popular culture, united states
Women, united states, biography
United states, race relations
Popular culture
Race relations
Social aspects
Biography
History
"In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth 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 enslaved woman who was said to be the …
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