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The Showman and the Slave
- Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 288
- Published:
- March 14, 2010
- Dimensions:
- 157x233x23 mm.
- Weight:
- 442 g.
Delivery:
2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 21, 2024
Extended return policy to January 30, 2025
Description of 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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