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The Showman and the Slave

- Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America

Om The Showman and the Slave

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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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9780674055643
  • Format:
  • Häftad
  • Sidor:
  • 288
  • Utgiven:
  • 15. mars 2010
  • Mått:
  • 157x233x23 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 442 g.
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Leveranstid: 2-4 veckor
Förväntad leverans: 19. december 2024
Förlängd ångerrätt till 31. januari 2025

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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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