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Professional Savages : Captive Lives and Western Spectacle
Professional Savages Captive Lives and Western Spectacle
Author: Roslyn Poignant
In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum called for examples of “all the uncivilized races in existence.” In response, the showman R. A. Cunningham shipped two groups of Australian Aborigines to the United States. They were displayed as “cannibals” in circuses, dime museums, fairgrounds, and other showplaces in A...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300102475
ISBN-10: 030010247X
Publication Date: 7/11/2004
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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