| Title: | The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington (the Father of Our Country), Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds |
| Note: | prepared for a P. T. Barnum exhibition; 1835 |
| Link: | HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC |
| Stable link here: | https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp71811 |
| Subject: | Heth, Joice, -1836 |
| Subject: | African Americans -- Virginia -- Biography |
| Subject: | Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Biography |
| Subject: | Curiosities and wonders |
| Subject: | Slavery -- Kentucky -- History |
| Subject: | Slavery -- Virginia -- History |
| Subject: | Washington, George, 1732-1799 |
| Call number: | E444 .L544 1835 |
| Other copies: | Look for editions of this book at your library, or elsewhere. |
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