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The man who controlled them before emancipation, Joseph Pearson Smith, recognized that they could become much more successful performers if they were educated.

They received instruction in reading, writing, music, and other subjects and developed considerable musical ability.

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The sisters were sold while still very young and passed through the hands of various owners and showmen.

They were exhibited before paying audiences and were even kidnapped amid disputes over who possessed the right to display them.

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Before Millie and Christine were old enough to understand what was happening to them, they had become valuable commodities not only because they were enslaved, but because people would pay admission to see them.

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The sisters were conjoined at the lower back and pelvis, but each had her own head, torso, arms, and legs.

Almost immediately, white businessmen recognized that the unusual bodies of the two infants could be turned into a profitable public spectacle.

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Did you know?

In the Victorian era, two sisters who were born enslaved and conjoined went from being bought, sold, and kidnapped as children to becoming internationally famous singers known as the “Two-Headed Nightingale”?

Millie and Christine McKoy were born in 1851.

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#ElizabethGaskell was born #OnThisDay in 1810, becoming a novelist & short story writer with a sharp proto-feminist critique of gender & class in #Victorian #England in novels such as #Cranford; she certainly understood the need for a woman's independence from men~!
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