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The Showman and the Slave - Benjamin Reiss - Bog

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

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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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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780674055643
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 288
  • Udgivet:
  • 15. marts 2010
  • Størrelse:
  • 157x233x23 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 442 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 16. december 2024
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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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