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America’s “United Siamese Brothers”
1996
Overview
In the early 1830s, as spectators lined up in towns across the United States for the celebrated event, they found for sale a publicity pamphlet purporting to give “an historical account,” based on “actual observations,” of the human exhibit they were about to see. The cover and title page greeted them with a familiar sight: an eagle, sporting a banner reading “E Pluribus Unum” in its beak, with the motto “‘United We Stand’” inscribed below (see Figure 5.1). Such an image, of course, was unmistakably American: though the nation was only a few decades old, already these symbols circulated widely,
