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267 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674055643
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition Pub 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...
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267 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674055643
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition Pub 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