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

[Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light crease to jacket. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. x, 267 p., illustrations, 23 cm. "A good and engaging read. A mystery story, an attempt to sort through conflicting, often fragmentary, evidence to give the most plausibly account of a bizarre, perhaps transformative, moment in American popular culture. Quite often I felt Reiss was acting must like a 19th century guide to the dark and picaresque alleys of 19th century culture." Ronald G. Walters, Johns Hopkins University From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).