[DOC] [TLE] Summary of The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George ... [PAR] George Washington, (the Father of Our Country,) Now Living at the Astonishing ... 
tell the story of Joice Heth, an enslaved African American woman whom famed 
showman P.T. Barnum exhibited as the 161-year-old former nurse of George 
Washington. ... by Barnum and Lyman, Heth became an extremely popular 
attraction. [DOC] [TLE] Joice Heth Exhibit - The Lost Museum [PAR] Barnum's public association of a slave woman with George Washington .... Joice 
Heth was only the first attraction for which Barnum publicized an ... a Showman," 
he narrated his version of the humbug-filled exhibition of Joice Heth, ... presented 
as the 160 year old former nursemaid of George Washington (she was neither). [DOC] [TLE] Joice Heth - Wikipedia [PAR] Joice Heth (c.1756  February 19, 1836) was an African-American slave who 
was exhibited by P. T. Barnum with the false claim that she was the 161-year-old 
nursing "mammy" of George Washington ... Washington) and was the first person 
who put clothes on the unconscious ... Barnum's career as a showman took off. [DOC] [TLE] Joice Heth  George Washington's Mount Vernon [PAR] Joice Heth, The Greatest National and Natural Curiostiy in the World ... According 
to the story, Heth had been the nurse to the infant George Washington. ... Adding 
to her story, Joice was known to recount stories of the First President as a young 
... The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death and Memory in Barnum's America. [DOC] [TLE] American National Biography Online: Heth, Joice [PAR] P. T. Barnum's advertising poster from December 1835 reads, "JOICE HETH is ... 
She was the slave of Augustine Washington, (the father of Gen. ... by P. T. 
Barnum as the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. Circumstances 
of Heth's birth are murky, as is virtually her entire life before her first encounter 
with... [DOC] [TLE] Sideshow World, Sideshow Performers from around the world. [PAR] Phineas T. Barnum was without doubt the greatest showman of the ... famous 
What Is It and Joice Heth the 161 year old nurse of George Washington, his 
talents as ... His early career success was with Joice Heth, an African American 
former slave whom he ... The presentation of human oddities in the Victorian era 
changed... [DOC] [TLE] P. T. Barnum: An Entertaining Life | ConnecticutHistory.org [PAR] Phineas was Philo's sixth child and the first by his second wife, Irene. ... alleged 
to be 161 years old and former nurse to founding father George Washington, 
drew crowds ... Never one to risk understatement, Barnum marketed Joice Heth 
as the greatest ... In 1842, during a stopover in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the 
showman... [DOC] [TLE] P T Barnum Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), America's greatest showman of the 19th 
century, instructed and amused ... Joice Heth was a disabled African American 
woman who, her sponsors claimed, was 160 years old and had been the infant 
George Washington's nurse. ... General Tom Thumb was Barnum's greatest 
attraction. [DOC] [TLE] PT Barnum: America's Greatest Showman - The Barnum Museum [PAR] P.T. Barnum gains his first measure of fame with the Joice Heth Humbug. His 
promotion of Heth as the 161-year old former nurse of George Washington shows 
his talent for ... Instead they are presented with a gruesome ... slavery. On July 13, 
Barnum's American Museum is engulfed in flames and burns to the ground. [DOC] [TLE] attraction, Joice Heth was billed as the 161 year old former nurse [PAR] P.T. Barnum's first 'freak' attraction, Joice Heth was billed as the 161 year old ... 
P.T. Barnum claimed was 161 years old and George Washington's wet nurse. ..... 
She was the first African-American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in 
.... The student wrote her name on the back when presented to a friend Julia H. [DOC] [TLE] the genesis of mass culture - Palgrave Connect [PAR] Evidently the most

Question: This showman's first attraction was Joice Heth, a slave presented as George Washington's former nurse
Answer: P.T. Barnum