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267 pages • hardcover • first pub 2001 • 3 editions
ISBN/UID: 9780674006362
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition Pub Date: 09 Oct 2001
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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 • hardcover • 2001
ISBN/UID: 9780674006362
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition Pub Date: 09 Oct 2001
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...