For one of his first "freak" shows, P.T. Barnum "purchases" a blind and paralyzed enslaved African woman. He invents a sensational story that she is 160 years old and was George Washington’s nurse, and charges viewers to see her.
For one of his first "freak" shows, P.T. Barnum "purchases" a blind and paralyzed enslaved African woman. He invents a sensational story that she is 160 years old and was George Washington’s nurse, and charges viewers to see her.