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267 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674055643
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 March 2010
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In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin 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 w...
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267 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674055643
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 March 2010
Description
In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin 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 w...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings