The Aztec Children
Maximo and Bartolo, the so-called Aztec Children were two microcephalic unfortunates from St. Salvator, Â hired by P.T. Barnum starting in 1848-49 as representatives of an ancient, vanished race. The children had been sold to a promoter by their mother, who unwittingly believed that they were being taken to an American hospital to be cured of [...]