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NELSON, MARILYN Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem; notes and annotations by Pamela Espeland. Front Street, 2004 32p illus. with photographs ISBN 0-932425-12-8 $16.95 R Gr. 9 up
The eponymous Fortune was, in fact, a man, a slave who died in Connecticut in 1798. After his death, his master, Dr. Porter, took his bones for anatomical reference, and his skeleton was passed down through generations of the medically inclined family even as its unwitting donor was forgotten. In the 1930s, the skeleton was given to the Mattatuck Museum and displayed there to the...