Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle by Roslyn Poignant

Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle

Roslyn Poignant

320 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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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 “...

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