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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: DMaA who wrote (366336)5/27/2010 5:40:33 PM
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Barnum was not dishonest

Perhaps the lion tamer and the trained elephants were not, but the Midway was one big con and we loved it, kept going back for more.

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 impresario through his slave Joice Heth. Around 1850, he was involved in a hoax about a weed that would turn black people white. (from the WIKI)
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