TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.4159/9780674042650
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - The Showman and the Slave :Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America /
AU  - Reiss, Benjamin, 
JF  - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
JF  - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
CN  - E165
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1478674
KW  - African Americans in popular culture
KW  - Death in popular culture
KW  - Freak shows
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Racism in popular culture
KW  - Whites
KW  - Women slaves
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
SN  - 9780674042650
TI  - The Showman and the Slave :Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America /
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