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    Who, famous in another field, was involved in the politics of American slavery and in a hoax concerning a weed that could turn white people black?

    Question #85397. Asked by nibbles0011. (Sep 05 07 8:07 AM)


    zbeckabee

    		P. T. Barnum

    Barnum was significantly involved in the politics surrounding race, slavery, and sectionalism in the period leading up the American Civil War. As mentioned above, he had some of his first success as an impressario through his slave Joice Heth. Around 1850, he was involved in a hoax about a weed that would turn black people white.


    http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/p.-t.-barnum/

    Sep 05 07, 8:26 AM
    nibbles0011

    		Thanks yet again zbeckabee,

    Sep 05 07, 8:33 AM

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