Human zoo exhibits like Barnum’s-forgotten symbols of the colonial area predicated on a vague scientific racism-have been largely repressed in our collective memory. Barnum who infamously introduced the public to Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker and George Washington’s supposed “mammy,” Joice Heth, in 1835. One of the first modern exhibitions of living humans was produced by the great American showman and charlatan P.
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