Article ID: CBB000082657

P.T. Barnum, Joice Heth and antebellum spectacles of race (1999)

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Description On the 1836 public autopsy of an aged black woman claimed to be the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington.


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Authors & Contributors
Savitt, Todd Lee
Pettit, Michael
Zamir, Shamoon
Wilkinson, Doris Y.
Warren, Christian
Stone, Andrea
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Phylon: Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture
Journal of the History of Collections
Journal of Southern History
Harvard Library Bulletin
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
University of Massachusetts Press
University of Illinois Press
National Portrait Gallery
Johns Hopkins University Press
Duke University Press
Concepts
African races
Medicine
African Americans and science
Slavery
Exhibits
Social relations; social groups
People
Barnum, Phineas Taylor
Livingstone, David
Haggard, Henry Rider
Grégoire, Henri
Freud, Sigmund
Du Bois, William Edward B.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
France
United States
North America
British Isles
Caribbean
Great Britain
Institutions
Tufts University
Harvard University
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