@article{1478674,
      recid = {1478674},
      author = {Reiss, Benjamin, },
      title = {The Showman and the Slave : Race, Death, and Memory in  Barnum's America /},
      pages = {1 online resource (281 p.)},
      abstract = {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 said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of  the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the  newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and  especially her death--into one of the first media  spectacles in American history.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478674},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042650},
}