Having started a fruit-and-confectionary store and founded the weekly Herald of Freedom, P.T. Barnum at the age of twenty-five in 1835 purchased for $1,000 a slave named Joice Heth, whom he advertised for exhibition as the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. Between 1842 and 1868, he ran the American Museum, attracting 38 million visitors to his various marvels
Lapham's Quarterly - Winter 2014 - Comedy, PDF, Laughter
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Lapham's Quarterly - Winter 2014 - Comedy, PDF, Laughter
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