Strange Root, or the murder of PT Barnum by Joice Heth

P.T. Barnum made a spectacle of Joice Heth. Strange Root turns the spectacle back on him. In 1835, P.T. Barnum built the foundation of his career on the exhibition of Joice Heth, an enslaved Black woman whom he presented to paying audiences as a living curiosity. When Heth died, Barnum continued the spectacle, selling tickets to her public autopsy. Her exploitation helped launch the career of Amer...