Harriet Muse, right, and husband, Cabell, far left, with the brothers shortly after she found them at a sideshow in 1927. Photograph by George Davis. The brothers were kidnapped from their home in Virginia to become circus performers. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
“Black children reared during the postwar baby boom rarely left home without being admonished by their mothers, “y’all stay together now or you might be kidnapped, just like Eko and Iko.” Eko and Iko were the sideshow names of George and Willie Muse, the grandsons of former slaves.” written by Beth Macy for the Washingtonian in 2016.
