Have you ever seen the greatest showman? Well if you thought absolutely any of it was true, you'd be wrong (except for meeting the Queen).

Buckle up for another bite-sized biography of PT Barnum, from his simple childhood to the greatest showman, we unveil the dark side of the man Hugh Jackman could never have played.

With co-host @sammysharesTV

Sources:

BOOK: “The Life of P.T. Barnum”

BOOK: "Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America"

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/dark-side-pt-barnum-more-11822105

https://connecticuthistory.org/p-t-barnum-an-entertaining-life/#:~:text=Barnum%20was%20born%20on%20July,by%20his%20second%20wife%2C%20Irene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum

https://cinemacy.com/the-greatest-showman-revises-the-dark-history-of-p-t-barnum/

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/why-celebrate-terrible-pt-barnum-greatest-showman-guest-165857365.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADR9IOQp4w3cdW_cb8ZUl0pr1Ic8sm3JCC_mSII6OrVP3kcGL_bYbqvVDu6JlP_J2KmlBxr8zUxI889Hn1hgi4Pkc6bnjc4WCyl6UTBvRsTxC-jUb_qWHMKVLWSCdB7gSC4hRwKuLJMGinHoctklljzzTbl0HdpVQrEW7Xqgn_8M

https://screenrant.com/greatest-showman-barnum-affair-jenny-lind-true-story/

https://www.peta.org/blog/greatest-showman-cruel-racist-history/#:~:text=Barnum%20essentially%20founded%20American%20circus,take%20a%20single%20free%20step.

Direct quote: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=plLxueViXQ4C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=%22proprietor+of+the+negress%22&source=bl&ots=ZUtfdjQKir&sig=XmnjXsEu7bZZd2BUAinsIajRgGQ&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22proprietor%20of%20the%20negress%22&f=false

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