
Joice Heth - Wikipedia
Joice Heth (c. 1756 [citation needed] – February 19, 1836) [1] was an African-American woman who was exhibited by P.T. Barnum with the false claim that she was the 161-year-old nursing …
Joice Heth (c.1756 -1836) | George Washington's Mount Vernon
Joice Heth was an enslaved African American woman whom P. T. Barnum marketed as George Washington’s 161-year-old nurse. Historians do not agree on her actual birth date, although …
Joice Heth - George Washington's Mount Vernon
In August 1835, circus magnate P.T. Barnum paid promoter R.W. Lindsay $1,000 for the rights to the story of Joice Heth. Heth, an elderly African American woman, with an interesting claim to …
Joice Heth Exhibit - City University of New York
Joice Heth was a popular subject for the many newspapers of the brash working-class "penny press" throughout her seven-month exhibit, and controversies surrounding her death provided …
Joice Heth (1835) - Museum of Hoaxes
Joice Heth was an elderly black woman whom a young P.T. Barnum put on display in 1835, advertising that she was the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. Heth …
Joice Heth - JSTOR Daily
Dec 2, 2015 · P. T. Barnum’s career as a Kentucky show man began with his ownership and exploitation of African American slave Joice Heth.
Summary of The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George …
The Life of Joice Heth is a twelve-page pamphlet published in 1835 that purports to tell the story of Joice Heth, an enslaved African American woman whom famed showman P.T. Barnum …
BETHEL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
In late 1835 and the first weeks of 1836, Americans in cities and towns across the northeast might have seen this poster advertising the exhibit of Joice Heth, an elderly African-American woman.
THE LIFE OF JOICE HETH - Sideshow World
Joice Heth.--The arrival at Niblo's Garden, of this renowned relic of the olden time, has created quite a sensation among the lovers of the curious and the marvellous; and a greater object of …
Heth, Joice · Notable Kentucky African Americans Database
Aug 23, 2017 · Joice Heth was supposedly a 161 year old African American woman, billed by P. T. Barnum as having been the nurse of George Washington when he was a baby. When her …
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