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9781932425123
A 200-year-old skeleton is on display in the Mattatuck museum in Connecticut. But curators only recently discovered the bones were those of Fortune, a slave owned by a local doctor. His bones reveal that he lived "a long life of arduous labour," dying at about age 60. Now Marilyn Nelson, Poet Laureate of Connecticut, commemorates Fortune's life in The Manumission Requiem. The poem is enhanced by detailed notes and archival photographs.Nelson, Marilyn is the author of 'Fortune's Bones The Manumission Requiem', published 2004 under ISBN 9781932425123 and ISBN 1932425128.
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