The Dark Side of P.T. Barnum
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P.T. Barnum
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Phineas Taylor Barnum
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Freaks from Calcutta
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General Tom Thumb, aged twelve
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Antique portrait of famous people: Phineas Taylor Barnum
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The second deluge First appearance of Jenny Lind in America ca. 1850
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Jumbo, the Big African Elephant at the Zoological Gardens, Recently Purchased by Mr. Barnum.
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An early engraving of the Siamese Twins Chang and Eng Bunker.
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Mr. Barnum's White Burmese Elephant Toung Taloung: The Elephant with His Burmese Attendant in Jumbo's House at the Zoological Gardens
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Madame Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind)
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Circus Crowd
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Hum-Bug (P T Barnum)
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Chang And Eng Bunker
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James A. Bailey
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Antique illustration of USA: Bridgeport, Connecticut - Factory
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Samuel Root or Marcus Aurelius Root general tom thumb.
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Waiting in line for Circus Tickets
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Antique photograph: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
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Phineas Taylor Barnum, Circus pioneer and politician, 1810-1891
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Circus Winter Quarters
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Cover of "Home Sweet Home"
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P. T. Barnum & Co. Circus Poster
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Portrait of P.T. Barnum
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View of the American Museum, Broadway, New York
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P.T. Barnum
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Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, The Peerless Prodigies of Physical Phenomena and Great Presentation of Marvelous Living Human Curiosities, Circus Poster, circa 1899
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1850s FIRST APPEARANCE OF...
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Caricature Of Barnum Curiosities
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Burning Of Barnum'S Museum
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Sketching of Texas Ranchman
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Portrait of Circus Tycoon P. T. Barnum
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Printing the Daily Telegraph newspaper, London, c1900 (1903)
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Circus Elephants Performing for Sick Children
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Portrait of P.T. Barnum
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Elephants Traveling Through Lincoln Tunnel After Rail Strike
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Headshoulders Portrait Of Jenny Lind
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Barnum And Bailey Circus Advertisement
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P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb
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The Hippodrome
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P. T. Barnum
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P. T. Barnum
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United States, Portrait of P, T, Barnum
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Barnum & Bailey Horse Show
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Portrait of Circus Showman Phineas T. Barnum
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'Barnum's National Poultry Show Polka' Sheet Music
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Henry James (1843-1916) american naturalised english novelist and his brother William James (1842-1910) american philosopher, picture by Marie Leon, 1908
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Barnum Trade Card
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Going To The Circus
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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Victoria
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Jumbo On Broadway
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Tom Thumb
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Portrait Of P.T. Barnum
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Wee Laddie
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Broadway
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Barnum's Museum
Correction: Barnum's elephant Jumbo died in Ontario, Canada, not California. Thank you to those who brought this to our attention!
Was gonna say lmao
Lol you'll said the Wales fell to their death even though they were in the basement. Lol
@@AnHonestLiarwhat lol
Did you seriously read Ontario, CA and think California instead of Canada? Embarrassing...
PT Barnum's whale captures made Seaworld look like a luxury spa. The beluga's he kept at the museum began BOILING ALIVE IN THEIR TANKS. Someone broke the wall of their tank to try and show some 'mercy' but they beached and ended up falling as the museum collapsed. Horrific stuff.
You look that up on Google didn't lol but me from Connecticut will tell you a whole different story
@@markcampbell9477 are you speaking English?
@@markcampbell9477 what tf are you even saying bro
😔😔
I’m from CT, please disregard the CT resident above thats having a stroke while attempting to type. PT Barnum is a huge part of Bridgeports history but almost everyone recognizes the inhumane aspects of his circus. Growing up a town over from bridgeport, to me it felt like the focus was more on Tom Thumb and the circus as a whole and PT Barnum was just the guy in the background making it all happen. But that’s just my experience.
Small correction jumbo died in saint Thomas, Ontario, Canada not California. There’s a huge statue of him when you entered saint Thomas it’s very interesting
I could have guessed that a man
who tortured animals had a dark side.
not saying that those awful things didn't happen to those poor animals, but don't use PETA as an authority o. anything. they're as bad for animals as barnum was.
Agreed
Peta is biased
PETA kills more animals than they save and steal pets from peoples homes they are the scum of the earth using the veil of caring for animals to kill as many animals as they possibly can
They’re not worse
@@user-sp9bn4xn5n They're certainly not better, or more reliable.
@@user-sp9bn4xn5nyes they are, in terms of abusing animals. Theyve been sued several times for kidnapping family pets and euthanizing them. 90% of their stunts results in mass deaths for the animals theyre "trying to protect". IE Releasing a bunch of lobsters into the a freshwater river.
And this is why I can't, "get over it, it's just a movie," with 'The Greatest Showman.' Spectacular performances, especially by Jackman, but it's just more revisionist history that, despite it being "just a film," people will latch onto and believe as truth because it's, "based on a true story." No, it's based on the lies Barnum wanted the public to believe while being an absolutely appalling person. There are plenty of people who can love the movie as a film, and detest the man, but that's not going to be the majority of people. On top of that, it's very existence in the way it portrayed Barnum says that, the people who made the film are either wilfully ignorant of the truth of Barnum, or they cosigned the racist shiesty things he stood for. Either way, not a good look imo.
triggereddddd
As this very video explains “the greatest show on earth” moniker started after barnums death when ringling brothers, Barnum and bailey merged. That’s 8 men. Are they all evil racists or do you think maybe humans are complicated. Greatest Showman wasn’t “about” any of them. Just a movie about the circus. In short get over it, it’s just a movie
It's was the 1850s too lol Nobody's perfect, and Barnum paid good too
@@AnHonestLiarYeah man, autopsying a women and having people pay for it was a normal side hustle in the 1800’s, grow a pair.
I think the reason it's extra egregious is bc one of the themes is being yourself no matter what other people think of you. The historical Barnum's actions were the exact opposite of that idea.
Several of my ancestors were carnies for PT Barnum as trapeze artists and tight rope walkers
How interesting! Do you know what they said/thought of him?
Damn why did they make p t so handsome while he looks like a founding father irl
PT was old there, he was mid 30s in the movie
Don’t diss my boy, Hamilton.
Casting Hugh Jackman in a film always makes the character look handsome
Because all the people that think Hugh is hot would be guaranteed to watch the movie at least once.
Lol, this is what an older person from the 1800s looked like.
What if we get L.M. Miranda to write a hit musical about him being an absolute s$%^ monster. Jackman could still star in it.
....we need this
Good idea
Awesome job on the story telling
I have been told by my grandma that P.T. Barnum is my 16th cousin and looking at pictures of my great grandma I can see the family resemblance.
I prefer the fake story of him i.e. greatest showman and Barium
if that's truly the case then you're my distant cousin as well.
That’s what I have been told as well
Jumbo died in my home town in canada not califorina😂😂
Must have passed that statue a thousand times, didn't realize we were in California 🤣
@@saphira_ haha same close to my house such a small town
I live in the California version of ontario and I literally never heard of that before so atleast my questions have been cleared 💀
Buzzfeed burying everyone who I thought were great people 🔪💀
Don’t listen to Behind the Bastards or Dark History. (But do bc they’re both great)
Unfortunately greatness requires unsavory set of personal traits. Traits that normal people would be (and are) horrified by.
Greed, narcissism, and usually some sociopathic tendencies to name a few. 😉
@@TheJinxanna I'm a fan of Dark History but thanks for pointing out Behind the Bastards - off to have a look.
Its Buzzfeed. Theyre not exactly great people themselves....
My parents took me and my siblings to see the P.T. Barnum Circus(Later renamed the Barnum & Bailey Circus) when they came into town when I was 11 years old back in 2015 and I remember that I was crying and wanted to leave during the performance so badly due to the treatment of the animals. Some of the animals were whipped so bad during the performance that they flinched. I remember that during the performances, the tigers were sitting on their stools that their trainer has them sit on and we’re doing what they were trained to do. And they were just getting whipped something awful. And another trainer went up to one of the camels and spat right in its face for no reason. And during the elephants performance, I could see that the elephants had those shackles that have the spikes on their feet. Due to the brightness of the lights, I could also see that one of the elephants was bleeding from its foot and was limping the entire performance. I’m glad that this circus got shut down because no animal deserves such awful treatment 😔💔
Dark side? I knew he was a crook and not a likeable person before and when the movie came out it was a laugh cause it was so loosely based
Never liked the circus. Guess I was right to never go to one
They aren’t like that at all circus anymore!
Just love how after demolishing the credibility of ghouls, now BuzzFeed unsolved is doing the same to the once-beloved figures
Good that this „secret“ is finally unveiled
"Once beloved" 😂
@@Claire_Loves_Music Gotta admit, "beloved" is a bit strong lol
I don't think anyone even knew who he was until the movie released.
What are you smoking 😂
Different times in life. Hard to judge. The principles of that time is not the same these days. He still a legend.
“Greatest show on earth you know we turn it out daily. In and out of town, like Barnum and Bailey” - 311
You forgot to mention that Jumbo was the parent of "Jennie". An elephant owned by Houdini. Which was featured in Houdini's grand illusion of Vanishing an Elephant.
good one. thank you
So, from what I'm hearing so far, he's the real life Grunkle Stan?
Edit - Grunkle Stan with a whole lot of racism, among other morally upsetting things. Stan may not have been a role model, but he's a much better one than Barnum
Jumbo was killed in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, not California
😂 I know what a knob
Am I the only one annoyed by his pronounciation of museum
Just heard it.
YES.
Whats wrong with him lol
And the fact he said st Thomas Ontario is in California?! 😂 it’s in Canada
Intriguing, I always knew there was more to life and i have also been looking for a way to find not only protection but a way to be influential to the human society
oh well you can achieve that by being a part of the illuminatus brotherhood, i know it sounds like a mystery but there are ways you can actually get in contact with them.
@@bartholetbay412 hi, isn't the brotherhood a myth?
@@haynesatteh4463 Well it is not and you can't actually expect it to be open to everyone, but if you want to know more you can look up ANTHONY MARK SZYMON online you will find something interesting..
@@bartholetbay412 oh really, i just saw his website, interesting.i will leave him a message
General Thumb kinda looks like Hasbullah
who the hell is John Thumb? LOL
😂
if anyone knows bridgeport, they know the PT barnum apartments lol, not a good place to live
I loved the video but every time the narrator said museum, I got ripped out of the story. I've never heard that pronunciation before.
10:58 jumbo was struck in st thomas Ontario canada, not california lol isn't Ontario California a city? Why would there be a city inside a city inside a state lol
the musAM
He was right. People want to be duped. Look at Facebook Twitter and TH-cam today.
Dude was real life Grunkle Stan
Couldn’t even escape this jag weed in death.
What in the hell is the background noise that starts a lil after 4 mins in
Read the book THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY it has more info
The greatest showman just got ruined for me, it was my whole childhood😢
P.T. Barnum was a bit of a precursor to Edward Bernays, in that he realized people knew they were being deceived and wilfully desired (to even pay for it) while it also was a bit of a "bread and circus," and essential to a functional democracy.
So how long before disney+ removes the greatest showman off their streaming service? Lol
so crazy
Who is narrating this?
Sorry.. peta is not a resource to be named as the ones who know it...
😂 Everyone always thinks of Ontario CA as on ontario California before they think of Ontario Canada. Not super surprised because Americans don’t know much about us
Or, nobody thinks about Canada
chang and aang turned out to own slaves when they retired :(
He was a capitalist. Capitalism as an ideology is sociopathic in nature. He is a clear example of this.
Russell, just get a job already. You're not relocating anyone's stuff. Get over it.
They don't compare to universal circus
DUDE THE GREATEST SHOWMAN IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE AND I CAOULDNT BELIEVE WHEN I SAW THIS VIDEO
Yo
I still think the movie was decent.
Hugh was great but Michael Crawford kicked it in the park in 81!A
the real 1 was lets say odd
PT barnum is my idol
Yeahhh
yeah but like the songs in the movie go hard
FR
Who is the PT Barnum of today?
A dosh bag
Michael Jackson was in some ways before he died think about it.
I think people still enjoy being "conned"--giving the "reality TV" craze. I see very little difference. As much as people might like to believe those featured on these shows are as they appear--it's NOT REALITY. Maybe some of it is ( the challenges that "little people" deal with in a world made for those of regular height, etc and TH-cam channels that cover children with various conditions and the parents who are raising them). Most is downright STAGED. We NEVER openly were shown the dark side of the Duggars, nor the Kardashians without makeup. I think despite our technical advances, human nature remains the same. We still want to be entertained, the chance to see the unusual and abnormal and to wrap our heads around the bizarre. P T Barnum made it possible for the humans in his shows to make a decent living--in a time they otherwise couldn't have. As for animals--humans have tons more knowledge about the animal kingdom now than they did in the mid 1800's....in part because of captivity and museums. We're all a mixed bag of positive and negative traits. P T Barnum was a man of the times he lived in and a whole lot better of a human than many in the history books. It's generally not advised to try to judge anyone without considering the historical setting, common thoughts and beliefs held at that time and how they contrast to today's. The man was faithful to his wife, he paid his entire crew and piqued human curiousity and filled a need in what otherwise was a difficult existence without the comforts, luxuries and the things we take for granted today. The very fact the circus survived for over 100 years is testimony to his genius. He brought his performance to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria!
How many reality TV shows have accomplished THAT?
Read what he did to Joice Heth. He was NOT a mixed bag.
Had P.T. Been alive today.........he would have been a republican president.
bring back buzzfeed unsolved
Ghost files will be better
@@justdandy6985 nothing will be better
CA = Canada!!!
This is why at work we prefer the ISO 3166 three-character country codes: CAN will never be confused with CA.
It kind of sucks that such a great movie, and actors and songs needed to base their script on this wretched person.
But lets be honest, you look back at any of those people living at the time, most of them did horrible things to people.
Barnum wasnt the only one who had a circus of curiositys and neither was he the only one who mistread animals, exotic or otherwise.
It would be fair to assume that that particular era was filled with exploitation of people and resources, slavery, scams from the simple to the complex, untold levels of racism and massacres.
And guess what its still going on. People have just figured new and better ways not to get caught is all. Same problems, different eras
it was the victorian times they had no sense wtf do u expect
@Organ Donor and your point is?
11:20 were they land whales? How did they jump out if a window
ST.Thomas Ontario Canada not California thanks.
This is not sure she treated the woman 160 like a queen were are getting your info smh
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Theyre going to say something randomly racist, huh? I know I shouldn't assume the worst, but its been like every Buzzfeed video since Shane and Ryan left. Seems they were the ONLY ones on the platform who weren't constantly bigoted....
Called it.
I grow seriously tired of the people that declare him a racist. And even more of the people that call him a hypocrite for opposing slavery (yes there are some). After a certain length of time, a person's entire life gets compressed into itself, and people either look solely at the good or solely at the bad. And if the good and bad contradict, it's not because the person grew and changed, regretting past actions and working hard to atone, it's because the person is a hypocrite who publicly opposes something while trying to exploit it for personal gain.
@@broEye1read about what he did to Joive Hes
St. Thomas, Ontario, CA actually stands for St. Thomas, Ontario, CANADA not California. St. Thomas is a town, Ontario is a province, and Canada is a country. A Google search would have told you that. Despite what Americans apparently believe there are other countries in the world. The video should be corrected.
Is it really all PT’s fault? Let’s be honest this is more a look at society at the time. If people didn’t go and approve of it he wouldn’t have been so successful.
Yes
Nice propaganda drop there. Say the lie enough it becomes the truth. 10:16
Huh? But. It's true?
Not sure I appreciate the reference that the parties are flipped from today when referring to slavery. I certainly don't believe in slavery and I don't know any republicans who do.
republicans were left, they're now very right.
It's literal fact though
this is for my friend 😂 sorry
We’ll Barnum was a dosh bag
fast af boi
He owned slaves
ye so did most of the rich bastards back then
Yes he did but he apparently showed remorse for enslaving them. However he was still racist.
@@jfournerat1274read what he did to Joice Heth. He was NOT good to his slaves.
@@fishcakepro I read it and you were right. He mistreated the people he enslaved. Honestly I am of course not surprised as enslavers notoriously brutally mistreated people who were enslaved by them such as by brutally beating them with whips or separating them from their families which were of course among the horrors of slavery that made it immoral and wrong along with of course those who were enslaved not being free and were also at the complete mercy of those who enslaved them.
@@fishcakepro this also makes me doubt his supposed remorse for what he had done. Maybe he only feigned remorse or repentance in a attempt to improve his reputation among abolitionists and those who opposed slavery. In that case he would be just like all the countless other enslavers as they showed no remorse or regret for enslaving and mistreating countless innocent people and remained unrepentant and racist for the rest of their lives.
Lol did u just say St Thomas Ontario California?! 😂 wow bud do some research..st Thomas Ontario is in Canada genius haha
OG clickbaiter
Is the narrator blind?
Everyone calling him a crook like they wouldn’t have spent money on tickets to see the show 😂 Smart business man and absolutely succeeded beyond his own expectations. If it weren’t for PETA groups, everyone (including me) would still be paying to go watch the circus.
Look into what he did with Joice Heth.
… i wouldn’t
Weird to think peta invented empathy towards animals. If you read articles about him, many hated what he was doing
That was one right-wing dude man.
Multiple issues here…. Not the least of which are how the narrator pronounced museum.. or how he summarily said there was a democrat/republican switch in terms of ethics and economy. Both are wrong..
Not sure which video you watched, but in *this one* the narrator said, "Remember that the modern notion of Democrats and Republicans was effectively inverted at this time."
That is 100% true.
Also, you having an issue with the way the narrator pronounces "museum" doesn't mean it's wrong.
Where’s Ryan 😡
Where is shin and Ryan?
Republican and Democrat ideals inverted at the time? What ever helps you sleep at night I guess.
The Republican Party was incredibly left-wing, the Democratic Party was incredibly right-wing.
Today, the Democratic Party is Centre-Right & the Republican Party is far right-wing. Stop crying.
@@TheAllAmericanSocialistMTR1000 ya it's obvious I'm the one upset lol you find a comment that is weeks old and get so in your emotions you feel the need to be rude to me. Center right wouldn't applaud riots or stand against freedom of speech. I honestly hope you have a good day.
Pt Barnum was evil
He did a lot for people with physical disformities. They made a comfortable living. They knew what he was doing and they were grateful for it.
Blah blah racist racist , you’ve destroyed any power that word may have had
fell off + watcher better + ratio