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1927__BLACK__CIRCUS__FREAKS_ __WILLIE__&__GEORGE__MUSE__ AMBASSADORS__FROM__MARS

$ 105.6

Availability: 100 in stock
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  • Condition: [__SCROLL__DOWN__FOR__PHOTOS__]
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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    Description

    Mother Finds Lost Boys
    as "Ambassadors from Mars"
    / Two Virginia Children.. Of Roanoke...
    Held in Virtual Slavery for
    the Last Five Years With a Circus
    Illustrated Current News Co;
    New Haven, Ct;
    1927 / First Edition
    Very Good Condition
    A 9 x 14" black & white photo
    on a sheet 16 x 19",
    the rear is blank.
    Edge tears to decorative border.
    This will be shipped rolled via Priority Mail only.
    In 1899 Black albino brothers
    Willie & George Muse
    had been kidnapped from their
    Truevine, Virginia sharecropper parents
    at the ages of six and nine.
    They spent the next 27 years
    as virtual slaves in various
    carnival freak shows
    touring the country.
    By 1927 they were with
    Barnum & Bailey Circus
    when it visited Roanoke, Va.
    There their mother discovered them
    and forced their return.
    In 1928 the brothers returned
    to the circus business,
    though with the right to sell
    their own souvenir merchandise.
    This provided a steady and
    significant income until
    they retired in 1961.
    All this was documented in
    their 2016 biography "Truevine."
    With accompanying descriptive caption,
    in this case quite sympathetic
    to the victims.
    This photo was taken shortly
    after their liberation.
    Both parents (Harriett and Cabell)
    are flanking their dreadlocked sons
    in front of the family shack.
    All are posed to be
    squinting into the sun,
    increasing their odd appearances.
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