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The Showman and the Slave Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America

by Benjamin Reiss

  • ISBN: 9780674006362
  • ISBN10: 0674006364

The Showman and the Slave Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America

by Benjamin Reiss

  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
  • Publish date: 10/01/2001
  • ISBN: 9780674006362
  • ISBN10: 0674006364
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Description: Benjamin Reiss's study of the legendary P.T. Barnum illuminates the significance of race's cultural capital beyond the plantation. Barnum's is a name familiar to most Americans. But how many people know that the great showman got his start in the 1830s promoting a racial curiosity: Joice Heth, a supposedly 161-year-old black woman and slave who, Barnum claimed, had once cared for an infant George Washington? Barnum publicized this so-called 'curiosity' in 1835 just as American popular entertainment exploded with the penny press and blackface comedy. The Showman and the Slave expertly elucidates the multiple meanings of Barnum's first successful venture...The result is a book that is not merely intriguing history but a good read.
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