03446nam 2200721 a 450 991078114230332120230323190451.00-674-04265-410.4159/9780674042650(CKB)2550000000017456(OCoLC)648279053(CaPaEBR)ebrary10402510(SSID)ssj0000473133(PQKBManifestationID)12187220(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473133(PQKBWorkID)10435953(PQKB)10787612(MiAaPQ)EBC3300846(Au-PeEL)EBL3300846(CaPaEBR)ebr10402510(OCoLC)744545531(DE-B1597)574437(DE-B1597)9780674042650(EXLCZ)99255000000001745620100825d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe showman and the slave[electronic resource] race, death, and memory in Barnum's America /Benjamin Reiss1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20101 online resource (280 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-00636-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index.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 --Note to the 2010 Printing --Notes --IndexReiss 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.Popular cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryEnslaved womenUnited StatesBiographyFreak showsSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryWhite peopleRace identityUnited StatesAfrican Americans in popular cultureHistory19th centuryRacism in popular cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryDeath in popular cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryNortheastern StatesRace relationsPopular cultureHistoryEnslaved womenFreak showsSocial aspectsHistoryWhite peopleRace identityAfrican Americans in popular cultureHistoryRacism in popular cultureHistoryDeath in popular cultureHistory306/.0973/09034Reiss Benjamin1498482MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781142303321The showman and the slave3724047UNINA