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Life Before the Circus
I plan to edit/evaluate the Joice Heth article. Her entire life is under-developed, in my opinion. There is very little information about her life, and the only information provided is a couple of years before her death. If I am able to find a substantial amount of research, I would like to briefly expand upon her life before her death. The tone of the passage is pretty neutral, but I feel as though even though it is her article, it doesn't represent her in a way that it does others. I feel as though it makes her to seem somewhat destitute. All the citations seemed to credible. I also want to expand more upon her contribution to the world of medicine and how important her situation was because I was somewhat confused myself reading the article. voice. Likewise, her body itself has also mysteriously vanished, no trace of it in Bethel, Connecticut, where she was supposedly buried (Saxon 1989     Saxon, AH. 1989. P.T. Barnum: The legend and the man, New York: Columbia University Press.        [Google Scholar], 73–4). This dual disappearance of voice and body echoes a crucial tenet in performance studies that performance is what ultimately disappears, a tenet that has been granted an ontological status.15vv *need to reword and cite*

Exploitation
Heth's body was exploited and abused in life and death as onlookers and doctors ridiculed, dissected, and then was disregarded and disposed of without a second thought. Unfortunately, little is known of Heth's life before her time at the circus. Researchers have only been able to record information of Heth's life from the point at which Barnum began exploiting her for capital gain.