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Friday, 17 September 2021
quote [ Among the “human curiosities” in P. T. Barnum’s American Museum was a supposed escapee from an Ottoman harem, a figure marketed as both the pinnacle of white beauty and an exoticised other. Betsy Golden Kellem investigates the complex of racial and cultural stereotypes that made the Circassian beauty such a sideshow spectacle. ]
Outside the freak show
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mechanical contrivance said @ 1:54pm GMT on 18th Sep
It didn't take much to entertain people back then.
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Spleentwentythree said @ 6:37pm GMT on 18th Sep
Their also wasn't much to entertain people with back then
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mechanical contrivance said @ 1:45am GMT on 19th Sep
Those two facts are probably closely tied to each other.
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