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
Wilkinson, Doris Y.
Warren, Christian
Stone, Andrea
Sloan, Patricia E.
Concepts
African races
Medicine
African Americans and science
Slavery and slaves
Clocks and Watches
Museums
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
France
United States
North America
Europe
Caribbean
Institutions
Tufts University
Harvard University
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