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267 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)
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Language: English
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In this story about one of the 19th 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 was an elderly ensl...
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267 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Not specified
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
In this story about one of the 19th 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 was an elderly ensl...