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200 14$aThe showman and the slave$b[electronic resource] $erace, death, and memory in Barnum's America /$fBenjamin Reiss
205   $a1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
210   $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (280 p.) 
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a0-674-00636-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tFIGURES -- $tAckrunvZedgments -- $tIntroduction: The Dark Subject -- $t1. DEATH AND DYING -- $t1. Possession -- $t2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- $t3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- $t4. Sacred and Profane -- $t5. Culture Wars -- $t6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- $t7. Spectacle -- $tII. RESURRECTION -- $t8. Authenticity and Commodity -- $t9. Exposure and Mastery -- $t10. Erasure -- $tIII. LIFE -- $t11. A Speculative Biography -- $tNote to the 2010 Printing -- $tNotes -- $tIndex
330   $aReiss 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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