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~~Fun~~ Horrifying Fact: P.T. Barnum used to have an old black woman as part of his traveling sideshow
He claimed she was the oldest living person in the world and was George Washington's wetnurse
He even submitted articles in newspapers about how she was clearly just leather stretched over whale bones and gears to get people interested in seeing her
Then when she died, he performed a public autopsy to prove she was alive
A crowd of nearly a thousand people paid to see her dismembered
So yeah, people have been doing this shit for a while now
He began his career as a showman in 1835 at the age of 25 with the purchase and exhibition of a blind and almost completely paralyzed slave woman named Joice Heth, whom an acquaintance was billing around Philadelphia as George Washington's 161 year-old former nurse. Slavery was already outlawed in New York, but Barnum exploited a loophole that allowed him to lease Heth for a year for $1,000, borrowing $500 to complete the sale. Barnum forced her to work for 10 to 12 hours per day, and she died in February 1836 at no more than 80 years of age. Barnum hosted a live autopsy of Heth's body in a New York saloon to demonstrate her actual age before spectators paying 50 cents each.
Get Out was a documentary.
Small solace that these sorts of place have to be dying out
I dont think wall drug has a body in the back they let you pay to see.
then who'd i give that shiny silver dollar to
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