[Extra]Ordinary People

The freaks. What are freaks. Who are the real freaks? The freaks are the ones on exhibit? Or are freaks the ones who pay to see the freaks? Or are the freaks the ones who put the freaks on exhibit? Are Mina and Minnie the freaks? Or is it their father Joseph Finley the freak, who against the wishes of his wife Ann Eliza Finley carted her fragile infant daughters around the country exhibiting them as “The Two-Headed Baby” freaks?

What kind of freak exploits his infant daughters as “freaks of nature” for money? Maybe in world which worships money it’s not that freaky even to sell pictures of one’s freak kids or exhibit them dead in glass lid coffin before forced to bury the dead freaks? But what about little freaks’ Dr. Besse who made money off showing freaks, though he knew it might kill them, and when freaks did die, made more freaking cash from a book on those freaks? Are Millie and Christine true freaks? Or the real freak Master McKay who owned, sold slave sister freaks? Or John Pervis who bought those freaks to make freakshow money the bigger freak? Maybe less freaky is freaks next owner Mr. Bower who made freaks famous in 1853 at N. Carolina State Fair? Perhaps least freaky owner of freaks, Joseph Smith, teaching freaks to read and write, sing, dance (only after emancipated!) Finally what about freakish fact Millie and Christine more valuaable as joined freaks, than just blacks?