Fortune's Bones

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.

Marilyn Nelson is the author of The Freedom Business, Fortune’s Bones, and Carver: A Life in Poems, among other titles. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Newbery Honor Book winner, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book award winner. She lives in East Haddam, Connecticut.

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