Benjamin Reiss Books

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

By Benjamin Reiss

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"In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum...

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