Freak Shows have commonly been associated throughout history with carnivals and circuses due to the showman presentations and narratives. For a hundred years one of America’s most popular entertainments was freak shows. In today’s world these same exhibits would be considered cruel. Disability rights activists have referred to freak shows as “the pornography of disability.” A change in the way living acts were presented didn’t come about until P.T. Barnum featured his own “freak,” Tom Thumb in his London circus and then later through his Museum in New York City.
The first freak show exhibit took place in 1738. The featured freak of nature was a woman who stood 4 feet tall and had a head shaped like that of an ape.Read the rest.
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