by Yunte Huang
Hilton, Violet and Daisy, 232–33
hoaxes, 48, 253–56, 259
Hobbes, Thomas, 40
Hodes, Martha, 211
Hollingsworth, Joseph, 315, 318, 321–22
Hollingsworth, William, 315, 321
Hone, Philip, 58, 59, 61, 100–101, 172, 262
Honeywell, Martha Ann, 43–44
hoodlum, origin of the term, 115
Houston, John, 200
Hugo, Victor, 41
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 89, 90, 94
human being, definition of, 87
Hume, David, 40
Hungarian Sisters, 21, 49, 311
Hunter, David, 291
Hunter, Kay, Duet for a Lifetime, 308
Hunter, Robert, 3–5, 19
and Chang and Eng, xxii, 20, 21–22, 26, 31–35, 39, 44, 45, 72–73, 76, 93, 129, 144, 205
and Coffin, 30–35
ownership of twins sold by, 98
in Siam, 4–5, 27–28, 29, 29, 30
Huntington, Collis Potter, 149
individual, use of term, 87
Industrial Revolution, 74
Ingalls, H. P., 300, 302
Irving, Washington, 150, 253
Jackson, Andrew, 41–42, 43, 147, 157–58, 159, 172, 177, 289
Jackson, Michael, 301
Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 294
Jackson, William, 265
Jacksonian democracy, 253
Jefferson, Thomas, xxi, xxiii, 177, 194, 236, 249, 250
Johnson, Ebenezer, 132
Johnson, Hilary R. W., xxii
Jones, Tanya, 330
Keese, William Linn, 306–7
Keller, Helen, 177
Kellogg, John Harvey, 226
Keogh, Myles, 295
Khan, Genghis, 98
Kirkham, Samuel, 179
Know-Nothing party, 284
Larkin, Jack, 147
Layley, John, 91, 92
Lee, Robert E., 285, 300
Lee, Robert G., 247, 272
Leidy, Joseph, 322
Leonowens, Anna, 13, 27, 287
Levi, Primo, 238
Liberia, xxii, xxv, 310–11, 312
Lincoln, Abraham, 43, 133, 177, 264, 300
gift from king of Siam to, 287–88
on judicial circuit, 154
and secession/Civil War, 157, 278–79, 283, 284, 288
Linnaeus, Carl, 53
Locock, Sir Charles, 77
London, Henry Armand, 300
London Missionary Society, 28–29
Ludd, Ned; Luddites, 6
Luke, Keye, 338–39
Lynn, Betty, 330
Lynnfield Battle, 112–16, 179
Lytton, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron, 101, 102–7
The Siamese Twins, 103–6
Mackey, Nathaniel, 181
Madison, James, 113
Malloch, D. E., 9
Mallos, Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix, bishop of, 11
Maltacle, Modeste “Canadian Giant,” 61
manifest destiny, 171–72
Mao Zedong, 117
Marsh, Peter, 198
Marshall, John, 97
Masur, Louis, 128, 140
Mayberry (fict.), 327–47
Mayberry Campground, 339–47, 339
McCausland, John, 291, 292
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum, 289
medicine shows, 46, 47–48, 68–69, 78, 111, 172
Meklong, Siam, 3–5, 6, 11
Melville, Herman, 99, 106, 258, 265, 274
Billy Budd, 63
The Confidence-Man, 62–63, 174
Moby-Dick, 41, 62, 151, 176, 237
Typee, 83
Miles, Melvin, 240
Minor, David, 60, 61
minstrel shows, 43, 270–77
Mitchell, Elisha, 191, 193, 194, 237
Mongkut, king of Siam, 13, 287–88
Mongkut, Prince (Siam), 4
Monroe, James, 311
Moore, Thomas, 156
Morley, Henry, 80, 81
Moss, Henry, 43–44
Mount Airy, North Carolina, 238, 244, 252, 327, 331
Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, 68, 323–25
Nabokov, Vladimir, 40
Naturalization Act (1790), 200
Neale, Frederick Arthur, 27–28
Neill, John, 322
New York City, twins’ tours in, 58–60, 61–65, 261, 262–63
Nok (mother), 6, 12–13, 17, 22, 32–33, 34, 312
Noyes, John Humphrey, 227–28
Nye, Edgar “Bill,” 275
O’Connor, Flannery, 163, 169, 229
Ohly, Herman and Honersia, xviii
Opium Wars, 30, 72
Orser, Joseph, 129, 190, 198, 201, 229
Ourang Outangs, 111–12, 161
Palmyra, xv, xvi–xxv, xxiii, 310, 313
Pancoast, William H., 8, 231–32, 321, 322, 323, 324
Peale, Charles Willson, 67, 72–73, 153, 177
Peale, Rubens, 177
Peel, Sir Robert, 74
Penn, William, 66
Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, 337, 346
Perry, Thomas, 296
Phaulkon, Constant (Yeraki), 18–19
Philadelphia, twins’ tours in, 66–69, 109–10
Phra Nangklao, 4
Phraya Tak (Taksin), 10
phrenology, 170–83, 226, 258, 322
Physick, Philip Syng, 68, 69, 172
Poe, Edgar Allan, 101, 176, 196, 255
Pope, Alexander, 21, 311
Posey, Sidney C., 166, 238
Post, Marjorie Merriweather, 301
Prang, Louis, xvii–xviii
Prang, Rosa, xvii–xviii
Prather, Thomas F., 239, 242
Prendergast, George, 193, 198
Ptolemy I, 319
race:
and citizenship, 211
and freaks, 82–88, 115–16
and harassment, 112–16
“honorary whites,” 211–12
and immigration, 247, 271, 277
and licensing fees, 128–29
and minstrel shows, 270–77
and miscegenation fears, xxiii, 211, 220, 221, 248–49
and phrenology, 181–82
and sex, 237–38, 244, 249
and slaves, see slavery
U.S. hierarchy of, 146
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, 15
Rama I, king of Siam, 10
Rama II, king of Siam, 4, 7, 15–16, 18
Rama III, king of Siam, 4, 22–25, 26, 27, 31–32
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 127
Raoul, Nicolas, 167
Reconstruction, xv, 309
Revolutionary War, U.S., 42, 286
Reynolds, David S., 157
Rice, Thomas D., 43
Richardson, Jane, 238
Riley, James, 275
Roach, Mary, Stiff, 317–18, 319, 320
Roane, William Henry, 127
Roberts, Edmund, 12, 13, 19, 27
Robinson, Sophonia “Sophia,” 89–90
Rochester, twins’ tour in, 140–42
Roebling, Johann August, 127
Rogers, Will, 268
Roget, Peter Mark, 85–86
Roye, Edward James, xxi, xxii, xxv, 310–12, 313
Ruschenberger, William, 27, 181–83, 322
Rutherford, John, 82–83
Sachem, 35, 39–40, 39, 45
Scottish Brothers, 20, 84
Scovill, Caroline, 213
Scriblerus Club, 21
Sequoyah (Cherokee), 188
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, 53
Sherburne, Samuel, 143
Sherman, William Tecumseh, xv, 149, 290, 294
Shields, J. C., 299
Siam:
cholera in, 15–17
lunar eclipse (1829) in, 32, 98
Protestant missionaries in, 28–29, 31
Siamese Connection, The (documentary), 234, 336
Siamese Twins:
as Civil War metap
hor, 278–79
as freaks, 20–21, 49, 73
and marriage, 216, 218, 232–33
and sex, 232–34, 237
as slaves, 129–30
uses of the term, 65, 157, 265
see also Chang and Eng
Simpson, Sir James, 305
Sink, Alex, 336
Sin Say, 200
Skinner, G. William, 13
Slack, David B., 56
Slatt, John H., xvii
slavery:
and abolition, see abolitionist movement
and Amistad, 193
and black codes, 128
and Bunker family, 249–51
Chang and Eng as slave owners and traders, xxiii, xxiv, 204, 207, 236, 238–46, 239, 240, 249, 284, 297–98, 312
and Cherokee Nation, 245
and emancipation, 127, 128
and free blacks, xxi, 128
and Fugitive Slave Law, 284
and Jefferson/Hemings story, 236, 249, 250
and Middle Passage, xv
uprisings, 6, 97–98, 117–24, 127–28, 193, 241
Slouka, Mark, 106
Snyder Act (1924), 200
solar eclipse, 97, 98, 118
Sparks, Rev. Colby, 219, 221
Speakman, Townsend, 68
Spicer, Hardin, 203
Sprague, Timothy, 47
Spurzheim, Johann Gaspar, 171, 172–73, 176
Stewart, Susan, 72
Stoneman, George, 294–96, 328
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 146, 173
Strauss, Darin, 106
Chang and Eng, 231
Supreme Court, U.S., 97, 99–100
Sutter, John, 271
Swift, Jonathan, 21
Gulliver’s Travels, 81
Sylvanus, Thomas (Ah Yee Way), 289–90
Tan Puying Sap, 19
Tarkington, Rockne, 338
Tchen, John, 200
Tecumseh, Chief, 7
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, “Ulysses,” 252
Terwiel, B. J., 16
Testerman, Morgan, 285
Thomas, Leigh, 77
Thoreau, Henry David, xvi
Thumb, “General” Tom, 40, 256, 261–62, 302
Tieu (Tian Cheng), 33, 34, 39, 73, 93
Ti-eye, 6, 13, 16–17, 304
Tocci, Giovanni and Giacomo, 233
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 42–43, 58, 66, 126, 132, 134, 147, 148
Toll, Robert C., 270
Tomlin, Jacob, 14, 28–29, 31
Tomney, John, 291
Trail of Tears, 97, 147
Traphill, 185, 197–205, 216, 221, 225, 238
Travis, Joseph, 118
tricksters, 265–67
Trollope, Fanny, 42, 66
Trump, Donald, 301
Turner, Nat, 97–98, 117–20, 125, 127–28, 130, 133, 241
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), xvi, 41, 106, 174, 233, 273–77, 308, 311, 315–16
Van Buren, Martin, 157, 170, 195–96
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 60, 177
Vann, James, 245
Verne, Jules, 255
Vico, Giambattista, 5, 317
Victorian Age, 225–28
Wales, Albert Edward, prince of, 265, 267
Wallace, Irving and Amy, The Two, 8, 190, 230–31, 296, 308
War of 1812, 131, 286, 289
Warren, John Collins, 46–50, 53, 54, 68, 69, 72, 78, 129, 172, 320
Washington, George, 43, 73, 110, 149, 188, 259
Watson, William, xvi
Wellar, Captain, 30
Wells, H. G., 255
Whitefield, George, 151
White Plains Baptist Church, 334–35, 335
Whitman, Walt, 174–76, 300
Wilkes, John, 188
Wilkesboro, North Carolina, 187–93, 333
Williams, John, 290–91
Willson, Meredith, The Music Man, 254
Wong Kong Chai, 200
Wordsworth, William, 81
Wright, Richardson, 149, 153
Wu, Cynthia, 236
Yamashita, Karen, 234
Yankee peddlers, 148–51, 265–67
Yates, Adelaide, 207–12
marriage of Chang and, see Bunker, Adelaide Yates
Yates, David, 207, 212, 218, 219–21, 238
Yates, Giles Fonda, 178–80
Yates, Nancy, 218–19, 220
Yates, Sarah, 207–12
marriage of Eng and, see Bunker, Sarah Yates
Zheng He, 9
Zhou Daguan, 9
Zimmerman, Simon Bolivar, 299–300
“Zip, the Monkey Man,” 265
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