Benjamin Reiss is the author of “The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America.” He talks to Steve Paulson about Joice Heth, an elderly Black woman who claimed to be 161 years old and George Washington’s nanny.
Benjamin Reiss tells Steve Paulson how P.T. Barnum got his start: exhibiting an elderly Black woman who claimed to be 161 years old and George Washington’s nanny.
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