{"id":861,"date":"2023-09-23T11:50:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T15:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=861"},"modified":"2023-09-23T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T15:54:15","slug":"1840s-new-york-quakers-millerites-native-americans-published-june-11-1882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/1840s-new-york-quakers-millerites-native-americans-published-june-11-1882\/","title":{"rendered":"1840s New York: Quakers, Millerites, Native Americans [published June 11, 1882]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/330px-Isaac_Hopper_engraving.jpg?resize=120%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-863\" style=\"width:120px;height:150px\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/330px-Isaac_Hopper_engraving.jpg?w=330&amp;ssl=1 330w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/330px-Isaac_Hopper_engraving.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Isaac T. Hopper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Every now and then there is quite a fuss in the papers about the ringin\u2019 of church bells, whether they are a nuisance or a delight, and this reminds me that a years ago there lived in New York a Quaker, a queer Quaker, called Caleb Offley, who, although a member of the \u201cSociety of Friends\u201d who are opposed to all kinds of music, yet was very fond of the chimes of the church bells. This Caleb Offley was a half or three-quarters idiot, but he had a splendid taste in music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He got to listenin\u2019 to the chimes, till at last he got to ringin\u2019 the chimes. He was only an amateur at this, but, unlike most amateurs he became so proficient that he could beat the regular bell ringers \u2018emselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The spectacle of a Quaker, or \u201cbroadbrim,\u201d ringin\u2019 a church bell, attracted a good deal of attention, and caused a little scandal among the Quakers, who reproved Caleb for so doin\u2019. Caleb promised to stop his ringin\u2019 the bells and tried to keep his promise, but he couldn&#8217;t he couldn&#8217;t keep away from church at bell ringin\u2019 time anymore than a moth can keep away from a candle in the evenin\u2019. One reason was that the regular bell-ringers, gettin\u2019 lazy, used to offer Caleb some whiskey, of which he was very fond, \u201con the sly,\u201d to ring the bells for \u2018em, and save \u2018em the trouble\u2013Caleb doin\u2019 all the work and gettin\u2019 some of the whiskey, while they got all the salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Finally the Quakers in meetin\u2019 called up Brother Caleb and censured him first for bell ringin\u2019, then for whiskey drinkin\u2019, and required that he should give up both of these bad habits or be read out of the meetin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Caleb stood up before the broadbrims and made a little speech, the only public speech he ever made in his life: \u201cI have done wrong,\u201d he said, \u201cand will try and do better; I will give up drinkin\u2019, but friends, dear friends, I can&#8217;t give up the bells. Don&#8217;t, please, ask me to give up the bells, for I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So the Quakers consulted together, and very sensibly didn&#8217;t push the matter about the bells. Caleb stopped drinkin\u2019, but he kept on bell ringin\u2019 till he died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; During Caleb&#8217;s time the original Swiss bell-ringers visited New York. There were seven men in this troupe, and they played on forty-two bells. Some of the bells were as small as a very small dinner bell, and others were as large as a very large cow bell. These bells were all very carefully made, and were \u201ctuned\u201d by scrapin\u2019 the metal, the clappers bein\u2019 upon springs. A piece of leather was passed through the ball of the tongue, the leather strikin\u2019 the ball direct, makin\u2019 the tone soft and sweet, without lessenin\u2019 its distinctiveness. The men put their forefingers and thumbs on the bells, and thuss kept a steady hold of \u2018em. It took nine months of practice to get a bell into perfect tune, and it took about nine or ten years to make a first-class bell-ringer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Swiss-Bell-Ringers-sheet-music-1844-Copy-Copy-1.jpg?resize=391%2C223&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-864\" style=\"width:391px;height:223px\" width=\"391\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Swiss-Bell-Ringers-sheet-music-1844-Copy-Copy-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C584&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Swiss-Bell-Ringers-sheet-music-1844-Copy-Copy-1.jpg?resize=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Swiss-Bell-Ringers-sheet-music-1844-Copy-Copy-1.jpg?resize=768%2C438&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Swiss-Bell-Ringers-sheet-music-1844-Copy-Copy-1.jpg?w=1129&amp;ssl=1 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Swiss Bell Ringers&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; These bell-ringers made altogether a most beautiful orchestra, and played music of all kinds magnificently. There has never been such bell-ringing before or since in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Talkin\u2019 about Quakers, there used to be a famous old Quaker, well known from Boston to Philadelphia, called Hopper, Isaac T. Hopper\u2013\u201dfriend Hopper,\u201d he was generally styled. And he was everybody&#8217;s \u201cfriend\u201d in the best kind of way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He made himself very popular among the Irish by a good deed once. An Irishman named Pat McKeever had served a term in State prison for burglary, and when he came out of prison tried to leave an honest life, but found it very hard, as everybody was all the time throwin\u2019 up his past life as a convict to him. It so happened that a robbery was committed near where this McKeever was working\u2019,and just because he had once been a convict, poor Pat was blamed for this robbery, though he was innocent and ignorant of it; he was arrested on suspicion, and as he had once been a thief, nobody would defend him, or speak a good word for him, or go his bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But friend Hopper came to the front. Havin\u2019 examined closely into the case, convinced himself that Pat not only didn&#8217;t, but couldn&#8217;t, under the circumstances, have committed this second robbery, he shook poor Pat\u2019s hand in the court and went his bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Poor Pat had been actin\u2019 despairin\u2019 and desperate before, as he had no hope. He could easily have been taken, or mistaken, for guilty; but now, as Hopper shook hands with him, he burst out cryin\u2019 like a baby, and protested his innocence so strongly that people began to think he might not be guilty after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then Hopper got Pat a good lawyer, who proved his entire innocence, and from the time the case was decided in his favor till the day of his death Pat McKeever was an honest, industrious man, and Isaac T. Hopper was his friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There were never so many Quakers, of course, around New York as there were in Philadelphia, still the Quaker element has had its influence, and a very good influence, too, in makin\u2019 up New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There was an old Quaker meetin\u2019 house where the stables or sheds connected with it were so comfortable that, as the story goes, you could hardly get a horse to go past \u2018em. All the horses wanted to go to Quaker meetin\u2019. One Quaker, who lived in White street, called Reuben Whitson, had a sleek, well-fed horse that was accustomed to take his master and wife to the old meetin\u2019 house regular. One Sunday Reuben&#8217;s wife was taken sick just before startin\u2019 to church, while the horse was waitin\u2019 with the wagon at the door. Reuben forgot all about goin\u2019 to meetin\u2019 and about the horse waitin\u2019; but the horse took care of himself. He waited the regular canonical time at the house, then he started off by himself to the old meetin\u2019-house, waited there about as long as he usually waited at the church door to unload, and then walked, as usual, to the shed, under which Reuben found him makin\u2019 himself comfortable at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This Reuben Whitson was a mighty cute hand at a bargain, and it was believed that the reason he was so fond of attendin\u2019 \u201cthe silent meetin\u2019s\u201d of the Quakers, where nobody is allowed to speak, was that durin\u2019 these \u201csilent meetin\u2019s\u201d he had his best chance to think out his business schemes. The old chap used to put up all his best jobs at those silent meetin\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This Whitson made himself very obnoxious to the Millerites, who were proclaimin\u2019 that the end of the world was at hand, \u201csure pop.\u201d Whitson boldly denounced what he called their fanaticism, and is said to have convinced many people of their error, \u201cplucked \u2018em,\u201d as Beecher would say, \u201clike brands from the burnin\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the men who got seriously affected by the Millerite mania was a chap called \u201cCuriosity Bartlett,\u201d a man who made a sort of livin\u2019 by selling what he claimed were genuine relics, but which were really manufactured by him, and palmed on the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Among the \u201crelics\u201d he had disposed of too advantage was what he said was a piece of wood from the old, original wooden synagogue of the Jews, on Mill street, the first Jewish synagogue in New York. A creek from the East River flowed past this synagogue, and in this stream the Jewish women performed some of their peculiar rites. It belonged to the Shewell [Shearith] Israel Congregation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Another \u201crelic\u201d he had was a piece of Ball Hughes\u2019s statue of Hamilton, which had been destroyed by the great fire in \u201835. There was a story connected with the destruction of this statue. It was placed on the Exchange, and when the roof fell in at the fire, the statue was crushed to atoms. Ball Hughes stood lookin\u2019 at the fire and shoutin\u2019 to save his statue; but when the crash came and his two years\u2019 work of art was only a lot of rubbish, the story goes that the artist sat on a stoop, hid his face in his hands and cried like a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then there was what he claimed to be a curious relic of bygone days, which he had bought, from the place where it had stood for a long while, right over the door of a house in Hudson street, between Hammersley street and the old Greenwich Bank. It was the sign of a fish, with a ring in its mouth, and was said to be over one hundred years old, commemoratin\u2019 some romantic story in the history of a noble family in old England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then he had what he said was a piece from the old Randall homestead, which stood right on the old Randall farm, which used to extend where Eleventh street and Broadway is now, and embraced the site of Stewart&#8217;s up-town store. This old Randall farm was the basis of the Sailors\u2019 Snug Harbor property, one of the most valuable in or around the city of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Besides these,&nbsp; \u201cCuriosity Bartlett\u201d had a lot of other curious \u201crelics\u201d illustratin\u2019 the history of New York, and by collectin\u2019 these \u201crelics\u201d and disposing of \u2018em to those interested in this line, he made a neat thing of it\u2013for himself\u2013till the Millerite craze got hold of him, and then he owned up that most of his relics had been gotten up for the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This disgusted a good many people who had been showin\u2019 these relics to their friends, and who had been in their turn tellin\u2019 others about \u2018em, not lettin\u2019 on that they had bought \u2018em from Bartlett, but pretendin\u2019 that they had got \u2018em in very romantic or odd ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There was a double hocus pocus about these Bartlett relics, Bartlett havin\u2019 humbugged his customers and his customers havin\u2019 humbugged their friends; but although just before what he took to be the end of the world Bartlett went round to his customers and confessed his little humbug, yet it is not known that any of his customers went to their friends and confessed their little humbugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The only class of people in old New York who didn&#8217;t seem to be at all affected one way or the other by the Millerite excitement were the Indians who were just then visitin\u2019 New York and bein\u2019 exhibited at the American Museum. There were some fifteen of these, and they made quite a stir and a show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One of \u2018em was called Nan-Nouce-Fush-E-To, or the Buffalo King. He was a special favorite with the ladies, because he was such a blood-thirsty monster. He had killed, it was said, one hundred and eight men with his own hand\u2013more men than even any doctor has ever killed. Then he talked nine distinct Indian dialects, which was more languages than even any woman could talk. So what with his nine languages and one hundred and eight murders he was very popular fellow, greatly in demand. The phrenologists examined his bumps at the museum one day and said that his bump of destructiveness was the biggest they had ever seen. If the old fellow could have got at those phrenologists I dare say he would have proved their words correct by their own scalps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then there was a chief called Mon-to-Goh, or the White Bear, who didn&#8217;t look at all like a bear and wasn&#8217;t at all white, and Wa-Con-To-Kitcher, a prophet, who looked wise and smoked all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But the pet of the collection, the favorite of the public, was a pretty Squaw called Do-Hum-Me, or the Productive Pumpkin. Her name wasn&#8217;t romantic, but her story was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; These Indians liked New York immensely, but the things in New York they like best of all were the public fountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The fountain in the park opposite the old Aster House consisted of a large central pipe with eighteen smaller jets, in a basin a hundred feet broad. By movin\u2019 the plate of the principal pipe the fountains could be made to take various shapes to which various names were given, such as \u201cThe Maid of the Mist,\u201d \u201cThe Croton Plume,\u201d \u201cThe Vase,\u201d \u201cThe Bouquet,\u201d \u201cThe Sheaf of Wheat\u201d and \u201cThe Weepin\u2019 Willow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Indians saw this fountain in full play, and were more delighted with it than with all the rest of New York put together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The pretty squaw, Do-Hum-Me, was the most pleased of \u2018em all. Miss Do-Hum-Me married a young Indian chief while in New York and was very happy. Everybody went to see the young Indian bride. But civilized life didn&#8217;t agree with her. Between the hot anthracite fires indoors and the keen cold out of doors, what with late hours, little exercise and rich food, she took sick, and in a little while died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Her poor young husband wore his loss like in Indian, but he felt it like a man. Her father was among the party, and he was bowed with grief. It was an affectin\u2019 sight to witness the old father and the young lover desolate together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Do-Hum-Me looked almost as handsome dead as alive. Her coffin was decorated accordin\u2019 to the Indian customs, and she was buried as near to the wait she would have been out in her native plains as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/greenwood_do_hum_me_.jpg?resize=195%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-865\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Do-Hum-Me grave at Greenwood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Poor pretty Do-Hum-Me was laid to rest under the trees at Greenwood, while her father and lover left New York to return to it no more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Editor&#8217;s notes: The story of Caleb Offley, as well as of the visit of the &#8220;Swiss Bell Ringers,&#8221; was reported in the <em>New York Evening Post<\/em>, Oct. 24, 1844, pg. 2, &#8220;The Capanologians, Music, &amp;c.&#8221; The Swiss Bell Ringers were not Swiss at all, but were from Lancashire, England. Showman P. T. Barnum had seen them performing in England, and brought them over to America, but renamed and dressed them to make them more exotic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lancashirebellringers.jpg?resize=418%2C230&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-866\" style=\"width:418px;height:230px\" width=\"418\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lancashirebellringers.jpg?resize=1024%2C563&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lancashirebellringers.jpg?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lancashirebellringers.jpg?resize=768%2C422&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/lancashirebellringers.jpg?w=1242&amp;ssl=1 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lancashire (later &#8220;Swiss&#8221;) Bell-Ringers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A news item from October, 1844, attributed to Edgar Allen Poe has promulgating (or originating) a tongue-in-cheek rumor that the Swiss bell-ringers were automatons, i.e. cleverly-made machinery. This was inspired by the Maelzel chess automaton fraud, which Poe exposed in 1836. Never one to miss an opportunity, P. T. Barnum must have noted this, and years later placed before the public an actual (?) bell-ringing automaton:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/automationbellringers.jpg?resize=340%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-868\" style=\"width:340px;height:394px\" width=\"340\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/automationbellringers.jpg?w=442&amp;ssl=1 442w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/automationbellringers.jpg?resize=259%2C300&amp;ssl=1 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Swiss Bell Ringers also spun off successors and imitators, as detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/kihm6.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/25\/the-spaulding-bell-ringers-at-legg-hall\/\">blog entry at Skaneateles: The Character and characters of a Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaac T. Hopper stood against injustice wherever he saw it. He was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do-Hum-Me and her father were of the Sauk Nation. Iowa Nation members, including Do-Hum-Me&#8217;s husband, were contracted by Barnum for display at the American Museum, recruited by artist George Catlin. 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