The Showman and the Slave : Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America / Benjamin Reiss.
Reiss, Benjamin, author.
2022
E165 .R45 2010eb
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Title
The Showman and the Slave : Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America / Benjamin Reiss.
Author
Reiss, Benjamin, author.
ISBN
9780674042650
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042650
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2001
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (281 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674042650 doi
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E165 .R45 2010eb
Summary
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.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
FIGURES
AckrunvZedgments
Introduction: The Dark Subject
1. DEATH AND DYING
1. Possession
2. The Celebrated Curiosity
3. Private Acts, Public Memories
4. Sacred and Profane
5. Culture Wars
6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber
7. Spectacle
II. RESURRECTION
8. Authenticity and Commodity
9. Exposure and Mastery
10. Erasure
III. LIFE
11. A Speculative Biography
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