Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-266) and index
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Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Staging Manhood, Writing Manhood: Cultural Authority and the Indian Body; 1 ''De Genewine Artekil'': William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and Abolitionism; 2 The Indian in the Museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and Authentic Manhood; 3 A ''Rara Avis in Terris '': Poe's ''Hop-Frog'' and Race in the Antebellum Freak Show; 4 Inward Criminality and the Shadow of Race: The House of the Seven Gables and Daguerreotypy; Epilogue: Electric Chains; Notes; Bibliography; Index