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In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the segment entitled "Meal Ticket" features a limbless person who reads famous speeches to an audience for entertainment. Was this a common form of sideshow entertainment in Reconstruction-era America?

by /u/NazzerDawk in /r/AskHistorians

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