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The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
Joseph Andrew Orser
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Hardcover. Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFG; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 243 x 19. Weight in Grams: 534.
Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature" and "Oriental curiosities." More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered twenty-one children between them. Though the brothers constantly professed their normality, they occupied a strange space in nineteenth-century America. They spoke English, attended church, became American citizens, and backed the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet ... Read more
Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature" and "Oriental curiosities." More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered twenty-one children between them. Though the brothers constantly professed their normality, they occupied a strange space in nineteenth-century America. They spoke English, attended church, became American citizens, and backed the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469618302
SKU
V9781469618302
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