History of Circassian Beauties

When I discovered a weird picture in a photo album i was sent down the rabbit hole of research covering everything from the Russo-Circassian war to Barnum and Bailey circus. This was a very research heavy video so I will link my sources in case you would like to dig even deeper.

https://emuseum.ringling.org/e....museum/search/Circas

https://barnum-museum.org/collections/

https://collections.ctdigitalarchive.org/islandora/search/Circassian%20?type=edismax&cp=60002%3Aadvertisements

https://www.smithsonianmag.com..../history/150-years-a

https://medium.com/lessons-fro....m-history/the-19th-c

http://mirrorofrace.org/circassian/