SlaughterboySlave Girl: the Diary of
“Fisher’s account explains how slaves came to serve as currency, goods, eunuchs, soldiers, and in some cases statesmen.”–Jacket.Reiss uses P. T. Barnum’s Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in antebellum North. first exhibit as a showman, was an elderly enslaved woman said be 161-year-old former nurse infant George Washington. Seizing upon […]