Showman and the Slave - Race, Death, and Memory in Barnums America

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Reiss, Reiss Benjamin
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2010
• EAN: 9780674055643
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05564-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, History, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Social discrimination and equal treatment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations